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In the following review, Landon offers praise for Austerlitz.
[Austerlitz, t]he fourth novel by the German expatriate author W. G. Sebald records the life story of Jacques Austerlitz, an eccentric arc...
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In the following review, Brookner finds Austerlitz a harrowing blend of memory, digression, and observation.
Exiles inhabit another dimension, somewhere beyond nostalgia, in which acuity of vision and...
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In the following review, Byatt offers a positive assessment of Austerlitz, but notes that its internal coincidences and interconnections seem more “overtly constructed” than in Sebald&#x...
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In the following review, Tindall judges Sebald's fictionalization of past lives and identities in Austerlitz as convincing.
It is a strange country, W. G. Sebald's, though one that has b...
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In the following review, Banville asserts that Austerlitz contains masterful narrative control and a poignant evocation of European desolation.
For a novelist, the Holocaust is at once a safe subject ...
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In the following essay, Lewis provides an overview of Sebald's literary works, thematic preoccupations, and prose style upon the publication of Austerlitz, concluding that Sebald's overr...
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In the following review of Austerlitz, Kunkel discusses Sebald's romanticism and preoccupation with the calamities of history, concluding that Sebald's autobiographical reticence deprive...
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In the following essay, Bere explores Sebald's effort to recover the Holocaust's legacy of individual suffering, displacement, and repressed memories in The Emigrants and Austerlitz.
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Critical Review by Philip Landon
