Austerlitz was as peregrine and haunting as I remembered. Of course this reading was informed by James Wood which I admit to being both thankful for and distracted by during this wonderful interim. The careful prose and the crafted allusions are mesmerizing. The palpable dread is never sentimentalized.

My best friend is in town to see his father. Earlier today while walking about and toting Austerlitz I told him that Bolano and Sebald died relatively young so that per chance we could possibly lend literature the slightest of life. I wasn’t being entirely facetious.

This book is wonderful - a great life story at its base it is much more. There's nothing new in me saying that Sebald is a genius of a writer and a fierce intellectual presence, but it is true. And the humanity of the writing in contrast to the inhumanity on display throughout the story is disconcerting at times but life affirming, ultimately...I think.

A haunting fictional investigation of the Holocaust. A story about the black void that exists in the heart of the post-1945 Europe.

Austerlic je prvi Zebaldov „roman“ u klasičnom smislu tog pojma, fokusiran na naslovnog lika i njegovo istraživanje sopstvene zamagljene prošlosti. I kao takav... Ok je. Nešto tu nedostaje. Komotno bi mogla biti jedna od vinjeta u Saturnovim prstenovima ili Vertigu i, čini mi se, u tom slučaju utoliko bolja. Stil je i dalje bogat, ali lagan, poletan, spretno pripovedan; tematski je priča celovita, međutim bila bi celovita i da smo stali negde na pola. Pretpostavljam onda da je struktura najveći problem za mene. Zgrada je veličanstvena, kao mnoge arhitektonske znamenitosti koje su plod opsesije Austerlica, međutim i na ivici tehničke zastarelosti, ili makar odbojnosti od strane mog deficitarnog mozga koji danas zna samo za JOŠ JOŠ JOŠ KAKO TO MISLIŠ NEMA NIŠTA NOVO VEĆ PET STRANICA.

3+

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