Book

Austerlitz

W. G. Sebald · 2001

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What this book knows

Memory is not retrieval but a haunting — the past survives in architecture, objects, and the gaps where language fails.

Sex: Absent
Work: Present
Learning: Present
Religion: Absent

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trauma-and-survival

Saving the dead—that is the paradoxically impossible project of Austerlitz…This book is full of old things…the kind of shabby, discarded picture postcards you might find.
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Extreme psychopathic personality changes…a kind of infantilism divorcing them from reality and entailing an almost total loss of the ability to speak and act.
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self-and-identity

This cast-iron column…might remember me and was, if I may so put it, a witness to what I could no longer recollect for myself.
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We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
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grief

This gigantic new library proved useless in my search for any traces of my father who had disappeared from Paris more than fifty years ago.
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The marks of pain which, as he said he well knew, trace countless fine lines through history.
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Illuminates

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