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3 mai 2020
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Tobias Becker, « A kind of historical metaphysic », Homesick for Yesterday, ID : 10.58079/sfni
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This is a follow-up post to the preceding one on W.G. Sebald, this time looking at the experience of time in his book Austerlitz. Like any good novel, W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz is at heart a thriller. But though part of the book is set in one, this is not The Murder at the Vicarage and though Jacques Austerlitz wanders through libraries and archives, it is not The Body in the Library. The victim is not a well-to-do minister, manufacturer or widow, the victims count in the millions, Austerlitz...