Austerlitz, however, rightly points out that the bongo player (unidentified) provides "kaleidoscopic counterpoint with Machito's inspiraciones" (sung improvisations, p.
Austerlitz e, das narrativas em prosa de Sebald, a que mais se aproxima da fisionomia tradicional de um romance.
Austerlitz is the most novelistic of the four narratives and the book many readers, myself included, regard as Sebald's masterpiece.
To facilitate this, Alfred Rosenberg created Mobel Aktion (Operation Furniture) and three special work camps in the center of Paris--Levitan,
Austerlitz, and Bassano--that were staffed by skilled workers drawn from "marginal detainees" at Drancy, the internment camp in the Paris suburbs.
In thought if not always in reality, the writer and his largely alter-ego characters such as
Austerlitz journey back in time and place; to haunting realities of the Holocaust and to the destruction of Germany itself by the devastations of aerial fire-bombing.
This essay argues that Marpeck's activity as an Anabaptist leader--or, more precisely, the two documented phases of his activity from 1528 to 1532 and from 1540 to 1556--should be understood as part of a larger effort to establish an Anabaptist "church" initiated by the Anabaptist congregation in
Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna) in Moravia, also known as the "
Austerlitz Brethren," whose early history from 1528 to 1531 played an important role in the narrative of the Hutterite chronicles.
Travel remains one of the most significant dimensions of Sebald's oeuvre, not least for Anglophone readers whose appreciation of the four prose narratives--translated as The Emigrants (1996), The Rings of Saturn (1998), Vertigo (1999),
Austerlitz (2001)--and the long poem, After Nature (2003) as travel literature is not dependent on a knowledge of German.
Born Frederich
Austerlitz in 1899, Astaire's lower-middle class childhood was devoid of any of the glamour of his later films.