Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Anthea Bell.

Main entry:

Sebald, W. G. (Winfried Georg), 1944-2001.

Title & Author:

Austerlitz / W.G. Sebald ; translated by Anthea Bell.

Edition:

10th anniversary edition

Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 2011.
©2001

Description:

xix, 298 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

Notes:
Translation of: Austerlitz.
Originally published: New York : Random House, ©2001.
Includes bibliographical references.
In English, translated from German.

Summary:

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, fleeting memories return to him, and obeying an instinct he only dimly understands, Austerlitz follows their trail back to the world he left behind a half century before. There, faced with the void at the heart of twentieth-century Europe, he struggles to rescue his heritage from oblivion. Over the course of a thirty-year conversation unfolding in train stations and travelers' stops across England and Europe, W. G. Sebald's unnamed narrator and Jacques Austerlitz discuss Austerlitz's ongoing efforts to understand who he is, a struggle to impose coherence on memory that embodies the universal human search for identity.-- Publisher description.

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ISBN:

0375504834 (alk. paper)
9780375504839 (alk. paper)
9780812982619 (paperback)
0812982614 (paperback)
0375756566 (paperback)
9780375756566 (paperback)

Subject:

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Europe Personal narratives 20th century Fiction.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Children Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) Fiction.
German fiction 21st century.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Roman allemand 21e siècle.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 Europe Récits personnels 20e siècle Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Holocauste, 1939-1945 Enfants Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Identité (Psychologie) Romans, nouvelles, etc.
German fiction Translations into English
Memory Fiction
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Fiction
Jewish children Great Britain Fiction
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) Fiction
Architectural historians Fiction

Form/genre:

Historical fiction.
Fiction
German fiction

Added entries:

Bell, Anthea, translator.
Wood, James, 1965-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316838
Call No.: 316838
Status: Available

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