...Stephen Thomson When we first encounter the narrator of Austerlitz , he is wandering around the unfamiliar town of Antwerp with, he tells us, “unsicheren Schritten” (1; 9). As well as reflecting the unfamiliarity of the locale, these “uncertain steps” evince a proud modesty characteristic...

...NINA PELIKAN STRAUS What does W.G. Sebald mean by the doubling of his character Jacques Austerlitz with Ludwig Wittgenstein, a “poetic” philosopher who, although of Jewish ancestry, had little to say about the fate of the Jews during the Nazi period? Sebald's initiation of the reader...

...Jessica Dubow; Richard Steadman-Jones This essay takes a particular image in W.G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz and traces the hidden web of literary, theoretical, scientific, and philosophical allusion that informs it. At a crucial point in the narrative, when the protagonist is on the verge...

... and Jan Peter Tripp. Trans. Michael Hamburger. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2004 . ____. Austerlitz . Trans. Anthea Bell. Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2002 . ____. The Emigrants . Trans. Michael Hulse. London: Harvill, 1997 . ____. “Recovered Memories.” Interview with Maya Jaggi. The Guardian 22...

..., a graveyard, the small lake of the Carthusian monastery, and wooded hills separating us from the famous fi eld of Austerlitz” (My Prisons 124). (The proxim- ity of “the famous fi eld of Austerlitz,” on which not long before [2 December 1805] the troops of the Austrian-Russian coalition were soundly...

... to life Napoleon’s calculations before the battle of Austerlitz, all exem- plify the common impulse to look at the world from another human being’s point of BOOK REVIEWS/85 view. The only difference between these nonfictional forms...

... to life Napoleon’s calculations before the battle of Austerlitz, all exem- plify the common impulse to look at the world from another human being’s point of BOOK REVIEWS/85 view. The only difference between these nonfictional forms...

... to life Napoleon’s calculations before the battle of Austerlitz, all exem- plify the common impulse to look at the world from another human being’s point of BOOK REVIEWS/85 view. The only difference between these nonfictional forms...

... to life Napoleon’s calculations before the battle of Austerlitz, all exem- plify the common impulse to look at the world from another human being’s point of BOOK REVIEWS/85 view. The only difference between these nonfictional forms...

... to life Napoleon’s calculations before the battle of Austerlitz, all exem- plify the common impulse to look at the world from another human being’s point of BOOK REVIEWS/85 view. The only difference between these nonfictional forms...

... in such a negative light that no one has the slightest compunction regarding their fate.7 The most radical adaptation of the Levite theme occurred not in France but across the Rhine. In German-speaking lands occupied and ruled by France following the defeats of Austria (at Austerlitz in 1805) and Prussia...