
Austerlitz
Novel by W. G. SebaldWikipedia
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Search complete. 11 mentions across 2 episodes found for "Austerlitz".
Oct 7, 2026
Edwin Frank on Love and Death in the American Novel
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74:03Edwin FrankGUEST
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74:04Jarrett EarnestHOST
Well, I love Paris Peasant, but I was thinking at the, in the conclusion where you were talking about the influence of Sebald's Austerlitz and the way he uses images as a twenty-first century thing.
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74:18Jarrett EarnestHOST
But, and for me, it's like Nadja, you know? Like-
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74:21Edwin FrankGUEST
Yeah
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The 6 Best Books Released Since 1990, Ranked
Oct 6 · 10 Mentions
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23:57speaker_4HOST
Safeguard Veterans, any door, the right support.
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Let's examine the number four pick W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz, published in 2001.
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24:06speaker_3HOST
To even call Austerlitz a traditional novel feels inadequate.
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24:12speaker_4HOST
It defies categorization, really.
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It does.
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We follow the narrator as he has these decades-long intermittent conversations with an architectural historian named Jacques Austerlitz.
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24:22speaker_4HOST
And slowly, painstakingly, Austerlitz is trying to uncover the black hole of his own past.
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24:27speaker_3HOST
He eventually learns that he was a child of the Kindertransport.