“Since the Germans had issued their decrees on the Jewish population, she could go shopping only at certain times; she must not take a taxi, she could sit only in the last carriage of a tram, she could not visit a coffeehouse or cinema, or attend a concert or any other event.”
W.G. Sebald’s “Austerlitz,” from which those lines are taken, is a prelude in reverse. In it, the nameless narrator describes his friend Jacques Austerlitz’s 30-year quest to discover who he is, and what became of his parents.
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