Austerlitz

Austerlitz

⭐️No. 8 on The New York Times Book Review’s “100 Best Books of the 21st Century” How much memory does a celebrity need?
When we travel alone through time, what do we really need to remember and face?
A noble soul in pursuit of the truth, a strange and dreamy memory puzzle,
From Wales to London to Prague to Paris,
A Wittgensteinian man, wandering between reason and sin,
Crossing the snow of time, arriving at the wound that preceded the body.
This book is the internationally acclaimed masterpiece of German author Winfried Sebald and the last novel he published before his death. The name Austerlitz itself is a metaphor: it is both a typical Jewish name and the name of a famous battle, and it also sounds very similar to Auschwitz. This novel tells the story of a Jewish boy adopted by an English couple. After learning his real name, "Austerlitz," he embarks on a lifelong quest to uncover the mystery of his origins. From Wales to Paris, from libraries to subway stations, from Antwerp to Berlin... As he explores his "self," the indispensable pieces of the puzzle of memories gradually come together, revealing a tragic personal story, a haunting family past, and a dark period in the history of the European continent. With his unique style and tone, Sebald transcends the boundaries of traditional fiction, blending fiction and fact, memory and history, image and language, narrative and commentary, weaving a story that is both intellectually profound and emotionally captivating. Through Austerlitz, we journey to a vast land imbued with an unfathomable sense of time, a world of hazy images and figures, shrouded in light and fog.
◉Media recommends Sebald as the Joyce of the 21st century. His story, about one man's odyssey through the dark ages of European history, is a culmination of continental European thought and literature, and one of the most moving and sincere novels of the postwar world. - The Times
If you think modern literature is dead, try Sebald. The spirits of masters like Kafka and Borges live on in Sebald. For Sebald, the "big questions" still exist, and he wants to answer them. —The Wall Street Journal
Most writers, even the good ones, write about what can be written; and the very great ones, like Sebald, write about what cannot be written. —The New York Times
Sebald belongs to a rare and elusive species... He is addictive, and once you are captivated by his work, you never want to put it down. —The New Yorker
One of the most gripping writers imaginable. His originality defies categorization and he is an essential voice of our time. His work should be ranked alongside Kafka, Borges, and Proust.
Sad, beautiful, strange, haunting... Sebald's secret is that he saw himself as a voice of conscience that seems outdated in this era, speaking for the dead and remembering justice.
One of the few writers who can make people realize the charm of language. ——The New York Times Book Review
◉Editor's Recommendation: Sebald, the last great master of modernist literature, a stylistic pioneer who ranks alongside Kafka, Joyce, and Proust. He swept all major literary awards in Europe and America, including the Berlin Prize, the Bremen Prize, the Heine Prize, and the Heinrich Böll Prize, and was even nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in France.
A writer among writers, Susan Sontag praised it as "great literature", Zagajewski wrote a poem in tribute to it, and James Wood recommended it in a long article.
Sebald's masterpiece "Austerlitz": sad, beautiful, strange, noble, the crown of German literature in the 21st century, written for responsibility and conscience.
His writing has the "solemnity of a bell". It not only answers grand questions but also caters to hot topics in current cultural discussions, thus arousing widespread discussion and receiving wide acclaim.
"Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st century!" —European media reviews of Austerlitz
Homer's Odysseus is a homecoming to evergreen Ithaca, Joyce's Ulysses is an endurance of banal Dublin, and Sebald's Austerlitz is a recognition of Auschwitz.
National Book Critics Circle Award
Koret Jewish Book Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Award, Wenger Book Award, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year

2019-01-01

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