ABOUT THE AUTHOR
W. G. SEBALD was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His books have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.
2011 Modern Library Trade Paperback Edition
Copyright © 2001 W. G. Sebald
Translation copyright © 2001 Anthea Bell
Introduction copyright © 2011 by James Wood
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Originally published in German by Carl Hanser Verlag
in 2001. This English language translation was first
published in the United States by Random House,
an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group,
a division of Random House, Inc.,
and in the United Kingdom by Hamish Hamilton,
an imprint of Penguin Group UK, in 2001.
Published by arrangement with Hamish Hamilton,
The bottom photograph on this page appears courtesy of the
Wittgenstein Archive, Cambridge, England.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944–2001
[Austerlitz. English]
Austerlitz/W. G. Sebald; translated by Anthea Bell.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-679-64541-2
1. Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Fiction. I. Title.
833′.914—dc21 2001019785
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