Sebald W.G.

Zamieszczone w niniejszym tomie eseje pochodzą z trzech książek W.G. Sebalda: Die Beschreibung des Unglücks (1985), Unheimliche Heimat (1991) i Logis in einem Landhaus (1998). Obiektami dociekań i interpretacji albo bohaterami esejów niemieckiego autora są m.in. Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Thomas Bernhard, Joseph Roth, Jean...

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Later in life, after a career as an architectural historian, Austerlitz - having avoided all clues that might point to...