starts in four stories, with a shorter on it, the following stories are getting longer. Sebald tells four Jewish Fates, four people who had to leave their homes and break it.
I'm looking forward to reading some of Sebald, whose prose style I like extremely. In the first story of Dr. Henry Selwyn Sebald goes into detailed descriptions, but does not lose it. I was always curious when at last is told about the second world war? And then: Nothing. This is the extraordinary in the story, it comes so quietly and ends with a bang. While reading, I've not thought about why Selwyn is in the garden, why he shoots with a gun in the air. Only pretty much at the end I wake up: Divorce and Selwyn talks to plants and animals. Now only the psychological drama of Mr Selwyn is guessable. Homelessness has driven him into solitude, but he was seldom look at his guests. As he lay on the grass, well, he has talked to the plants, an almost unbearably painful metaphor for the Abgedriftetsein from life. That psycho drama creeping, so still and quiet is so special about this story. Amusing to me, however, the book is a picture of Vladimir Nabokov found a butterfly catcher, which I know random.
Something particularly good to read in German literature, is very encouraging.
".. so they return the dead" -
by Sebald tells of emigrants who have gone through all the suicide in the death of return, just this dead again. The loss of John Naegli, who was killed in the mountains was, for Mr. Selwyn as a piece of home, which has been shattered. After more than seventy years the dead man returns to the consciousness of people. Remarkably, the emigration from Lithuania / Riga. Selwyn believes he is in New York, but he has arrived in London, which is a picture of loss and confusion in times of emigration, if you like an abyss, a life in limbo.
The mention of the photo and illustration of Nabokov's butterfly net with even program, because Nabokov was an emigrant, especially well into the second story, the autobiography of the exiled Russians gets mentioned.
is in the second narrative is dedicated to the village school teacher, Paul Bereyter, which the Nazis had issued a ban on teaching, although he three-quarters of it was an Aryan. Probably he was not even a Jew but a Catholic who fought bitterly to Catholicism, perhaps now even an atheist, but he knew an atheist Schusterund wrote pamphlets against the only true church. It will be a pogroms in the hometown of his Father mentioned, the last end two years later it died out of anger and fear, whose wife was a Christian. Here, of course, the brutal Nazi nonsense is presented. Evil is always illogical and stupid.
course it is risky to dissect the lyrics more and more. The flow of reading, drifting this is wonderful. To read everything in one go would be a boon. This period is unfortunately not available to me (maybe later, two days in the hermitage or so).
What a horrible choice of mode of death. Can someone voluntarily admitted to psychiatric care, treat them with electric shocks, specifically, to ruin, to leave this life. The text resonates with a psychiatric criticism of the old school. The electro-shock treatment, said a blessing for the psychiatry of the fifties of the 20th Century, made so many patients as the uncle of the narrator, the Lord Ambrose Adelwarth, for physical and mental cripples in our history from the patient, however, wanted that, it seems, of a misdiagnosis, that is still a slap in the face of antiquated psychiatry school, can not wait in the prison's death.
For Ambros, the same observations as the village school teacher Bereyter: he is somewhere and his face marked by endless suffering. Early in his career was a respected Ambros Koch in various hotels in Europe / Japan. In the second narrative, we do not know why Bereyter has gone back to Germany, we also do not know exactly what he experienced during World War II. For Ambros Adelwarth is also some held in abeyance. In the wake of the great wave of emigration at the beginning of the twentieth century, he comes to Long Iceland working as a butler in the Solomons, a wealthy Jewish banking family. We do not know what had a special connection to the Solomon Ambros-son Cosma, only that the connection should have been tragic. The father fell on the licentiousness of life of the son, a life without future was the son of the Money supply hats, acting as Cosma, with Ambros through Europe to travel. Based on this journey Sebald reveals what lies ahead for a crack in the world. We are located just before the Second World War. In Europe, Cosma outrageously good luck at roulette, it is already removed and unrealistic. The outbreak of war forced him into a first nervous breakdown, at the consequences, until much later dies - Ambros, then doing in the House of Solomon as a lone figure enraptured his service. The collapse of the Solomon family as a metaphor for a broken down time period, which will never rise again.
is remarkable in this narrative tells not only our familiar narrative, but also uncle and aunt Kasimir Fini, Abramsky also the psychiatrist who know a lot to say about Uncle Adelwarth. So there is more first-person narrator who sent Sebald incorporated in the text.
Maybe the third story is the most beautiful, although it is nonsense, yes, here are the so-called herauszuperlen beautiful story. All the stories are wonderful. Sebald remains true to his style. The stories are true events underlying these exiles really existed. A Sebald encyclopedia also clarifies who Max was Aurach. This has really astonished me. You could really see very much. Since then I have "Austerlitz" read Sebald is for me the big German. A place in Valhalla complacent?
Max Aurach is the painter Frank Auerbach . Also Erbach workaholic is reflected in the narrative to bear, he'll often for weeks out of the house and work, if we fail look at the beautiful description of Aurach a portrait, very intense, if not dogged:
"decided Aurach, after he had rejected perhaps forty variants or back ground in the paper and covered by other designs, the image, less in the to believe have completed it, as from a sense of weariness to finally let it out of hand, so it was for the viewer the impression that it had emerged from a long line gray, cremated in the battered paper are still haunting Santander faces. "
I am reminded of this the association behind the portrait haunted Faces, about Jews who have not survived the Holocaust. In the above given link to the works of the painter, is unfortunately not given the black and white portrait, which in the book in forms is, but even in these portraits has shown you the impression that the painter had painted over several preliminary studies. Sebald has wonderful impression of Auerbach Portraikunst characterized.
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