Austerlitz
内容简介
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 his origin - finds the past returning to haunt him and he is forced to explore what happened fifty years before.
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作者简介
W.G. Sebald is one of very few German writers of the last few decades to have attracted both a broad readership in the UK and an international following of journalists and scholars alike. He has proved a huge inspiration not just to younger writers but also to artists and photographers fascinated by the use of imagery and images in his work. His books include The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn and After Nature.
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读书文摘
我已经感觉到我头脑里那可怕的迟钝，接踵而来的就是人格的堕落；我预感到自己实际上既无记性，也没有思维能力，甚至没有存在，我的整个人生只不过是一个持续地毁掉自己、抛弃人世和我自己的过程。
我也从未感到自己属于某一阶级、某一职业阶层或者某一教派。我在艺术家和知识分子当中，就同在小市民生活中一样，感到不舒服。要去结下私人友谊这种事，我已很长时间都无法做了。我刚一结识某个人，就担心我对他过于亲近了；他刚朝我转过身，我就开始打退堂鼓。
我们在走出我们人生中几乎所有那些关键性的一步时，都出于一种说不清、道不明的内心的激动。
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