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Austerlitz
Literature · 2001
W. G. Sebald
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Literature 2001

Austerlitz

Sebaldian memory driftKindertransport returnEuropean ruin
Author
W. G. Sebald
Year
2001
Region
Wales
This work has been selected for the Aravien index based on editorial review.
Synopsis

"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fle...

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Sebaldian memory drift Sebaldian memory driftKindertransport return
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W. G. Sebald, 2001 — Austerlitz

"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fle...

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Restates memory in a sharper literature register.
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"Austerlitz is the story of a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. A small child when he comes to England on a Kindertransport in the summer of 1939, Jacques Austerlitz is told nothing of his real family by the Welsh Methodist minister and his wife who raise him. When he is a much older man, fle...
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