Gare Austerlitz

• Authors: Szerszen Tomasz

Title variants

EN

Gare Austerlitz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Sebaldian topography, similarly to his prose, misleads us by creating tangled, complex images – veritable “lines of motion, lines of life”, elements of a phantom psycho-geography mutually superimposed as in a palimpsest. This psycho-geographical context takes us to Paris, the scene of the closing and extremely important fragments of Austerlitz. The text is inseparably connected with a journey on foot (which, as is always the case with Sebald, features a rhizomatic, convoluted character) near the oldest Parisian railway station and within the surrounding 13th arrondissement, and involves walking in circles, a series of seemingly chaotic movements and transferences, and a narration whose meaning comes into being somewhere between the Seine, the New Library, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital… The text is a sui generis photonovel, with the author following Austerlitz all over Paris.

Keywords

PL

W.G. Sebald; Paryż; Miasto; Antropologia

EN

W.G. Sebald; Paris; city; anthropology

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Konteksty - Polska Sztuka Ludowa
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 68
• Issue: 3-4(306-307)
• Pages: 196-202

Contributors

author

Szerszen Tomasz