Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald lyrical tales

lyrical tales

alive to all the ways we shape ourselves to be understandable

Written in the eleventh century

This collection illuminates the uniquely fascinating era between 1820 and 1950 in French poetry - a time in which diverse aesthetic ideas conflicted and converged as poetic forms evolved at an astonishing pace

The island is a Greenlander

Austerlitz - W. G. Sebald lyrical talesIn 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