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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100812982614

ISBN-139780812982619

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Book TitleAusterlitz

Number of Pages320 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPsychological, Literary, Historical

Publication Year2011

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorW. G. Sebald

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight10.8 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-374295

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"[A] beautiful novel . . . quietly breathtaking . . . Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz's story a broken, recessed enigma whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue."-James Wood, from the Introduction "Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art."-Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away."-Anthony Lane, The New Yorker NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2001 BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES " NEW YORK MAGAZINE " ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize Translator Anthea Bell-Recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Outstanding Translation from German into English, "[A] beautiful novel . . . quietly breathtaking . . . Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz's story a broken, recessed enigma whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue." --James Wood, from the Introduction "Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art." --Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away." --Anthony Lane, The New Yorker "Sebald's final novel; his masterpiece, and one of the supreme works of art of our time." --John Banville, The Guardian, "[A] beautiful novel . . . quietly breathtaking . . . Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz's story a broken, recessed enigma whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue."--James Wood, from the Introduction "Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art."--Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away."--Anthony Lane, The New Yorker "Sebald's final novel; his masterpiece, and one of the supreme works of art of our time."--John Banville, The Guardian NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2001 BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES * NEW YORK MAGAZINE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize Translator Anthea Bell--Recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Outstanding Translation from German into English, "W. G. Sebald is a monster -- a gorgeous and unwaveringly assured writer, a bold formal innovator, and a man always plunging into the core of identity, singular and national. In Austerlitz , he's created his richest and most emotionally devastating story, and this book might be his finest." - Dave Eggers, "who has no right to be commenting on this man." "With untraceable swiftness and assurance, W. G. Sebald's writing conjures from the details and sequences of daily life, and their circumstances and encounters, from apparent chance and its unsounded calculus, the dimension of dream and a sense of the depth of time that make his books, one by one, indispensable. He evokes at once the minutiae and the vastness of individual existence, the inconsolable sorrow of history and the scintillating beauty of the moment and its ground of memory. Each book seems to be something that surely was impossible, and each (upon every re-reading) is unique and astonishing." - W. S. Merwin From the Hardcover edition., "[A] beautiful novel . . . quietly breathtaking . . . Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz's story a broken, recessed enigma whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue."--James Wood, from the Introduction "Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art."--Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away."--Anthony Lane, The New Yorker "Sebald's final novel; his masterpiece, and one of the supreme works of art of our time."--John Banville, The Guardian NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2001 BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES * NEW YORK MAGAZINE * ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize Translator Anthea Bell--Recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Outstanding Translation from German into English, "[A] beautiful novel . . . quietly breathtaking . . . Sebald contrives not to offer an ordinary, straightforward recital. For what is so delicate is how Sebald makes Austerlitz's story a broken, recessed enigma whose meaning the reader must impossibly rescue."-James Wood, from the Introduction "Sebald stands with Primo Levi as the prime speaker of the Holocaust and, with him, the prime contradiction of Adorno's dictum that after it, there can be no art."-Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review "Sebald is a rare and elusive species . . . but still, he is an easy read, just as Kafka is. . . . He is an addiction, and once buttonholed by his books, you have neither the wish nor the will to tear yourself away."-Anthony Lane, The New Yorker "Sebald's final novel; his masterpiece, and one of the supreme works of art of our time."-John Banville, The Guardian NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2001 BY THE LOS ANGELES TIMES NEW YORK MAGAZINE ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Winner of the Koret Jewish Book Award, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize Translator Anthea Bell-Recipient of the Schlegel-Tieck Prize and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize for Outstanding Translation from German into English

Dewey Decimal833/.914

SynopsisW. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece, "one of the supreme works of art of our time" ( The Guardian ), follows a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. "Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Kafka's troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. "--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times One of The New York Times 's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century * A Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine Best Book of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 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., This tenth anniversary edition of W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece includes a new Introduction by acclaimed critic James Wood. 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, 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., W. G. Sebald's celebrated masterpiece, "one of the supreme works of art of our time" ( The Guardian ), follows a man's search for the answer to his life's central riddle. "Haunting . . . a powerful and resonant work of the historical imagination . . . Reminiscent at once of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries, Kafka's troubled fables of guilt and apprehension, and, of course, Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. "--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times One of The New York Times 's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century - A Los Angeles Times, Entertainment Weekly, and New York Magazine Best Book of the Year Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and Jewish Quarterly Wingate Literary Prize 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.

LC Classification NumberPT2681.E18A9513 2011