Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald · 2001 CE · Novel · German · Contemporary

A narrator falls into conversation with Jacques Austerlitz in an Antwerp station waiting room, and over thirty years of further chance meetings hears his life in pieces. Raised in a Welsh manse under another name, Austerlitz has spent a career on the architecture of stations, fortresses and camps without asking why. A life recovered in the wrong order and at the wrong speed.

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• influenced by ↑ In Search of Lost Time
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