Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald Lidwien Biekmann in de jaren vijftig van

in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw

Monsignor Quixote roams through modern-day Spain in a brilliant picaresque fable

fabulously rich - always seems alone in the crowd

huiveringwekkende verhaal ‘Het gele behang’

met als apotheose de gewelddadige overgang naar de markteconomie

Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald Lidwien Biekmann in de jaren vijftig vanIn 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