markm reviewed Austerlitz by Winfried Georg Sebald
Review of 'Austerlitz' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
I hadn't read Sebald before. I came to this novel after reading a review of a recent biography. I see that this book was very moving for a lot of the reviewers, and although the part of the book about the Holocaust is certainly moving, I didn't feel that what the author was trying to do clicked for me. It is a sort of pseudo-history in which someone's appropriated story is fictionalized but also illustrated with a set of found fey photographs. It seemed sometimes that the author must have written the text specifically for the photographs. I'm new to this author and he certainly has a massive reputation, so I might come around to more stars if I cogitate over it - but not today.
