| |
| |
Flak Magazine: Review of Austerlitz, 10.23.01 |
 | | His books, such as his most recent, "Austerlitz," are interspersed with images, photographs that accompany the narrative but also create a narrative of their own, a fl-and-white tableau of a Europe gone forever, a world of iron and railroads and gas lamps and rundown cemeteries. |
 | | Austerlitz, we learn, is not Welsh but Czech in origin, having been sent off to England on the eve of World War II by his parents. |
 | | At the same time, though, it is Austerlitz's discovery of his past that motivates him in other aspects of his life academics, his love life and one suspects that, had he not uncovered it, he would be a lonely Welsh farmer, uneasy with his life but not knowing why. |
| www.flakmag.com /books/austerlitz.html (644 words) |
|