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“What was it that so darkened our world?��

Jacques Austerlitz an enigmatic academic at an institute of art in London tries to unthread the story of his life. Fragments of memories intercalate with the physical space that surrounds him making it part of his existence. The unhappiness building up inside him destroys his faith just when he needs it the most. Jacques Austerlitz is a man locked into the glaring clarity of his logical thinking as inextricably as to his confused emotions; like an archaic dramatic persona throws himself into a “gloomy and inimical�� journey of self-discovery through the Symplegades of past and presence.

“…space contains all the hours of my past life, all the supressed and extinguished fears and wishes I had ever entrained.��

Austerlitz will transport you to the depths of human soul. This is a compelling narrative into time and reality that brilliantly encapsulates the depths of the ephemera and the apogee of the eternal in postmodern fiction. Memory and presence converge into an abstract reality. The scintillating photographs spread throughout the novel give a harrowing approach to the emotionally charged storyline. Sebald’s writing is fresh and seductive, with a unique attitude to immerse you into the limelight of humanity and deconstruct your deepest fears into simple factual realities. A song that never ends��

“It does not seem to me, Austerlitz added, that we understand the laws governing the return of the past, but I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all, only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form of stereometry, between which the leaving and the dead can move back and forth as they like, and the longer I think about it the more it seems to me that we who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead, that only occasionally, in certain lights and atmospheric conditions, do we appear in their field of vision.��

Highly recommended��
4.75/5