Bookclub Read Me: Austerlitz - W.G. Sebald

28
May
De Groene Waterman 17:30

Read and connect by joining our English Bookclub. Today Nooshin Shahidzadeh Asadi talks about 'Austerlitz' by W.G. Sebald.

Nooshin Asadi is a PhD candidate at the University of Antwerp where she works on developing digital tools for literary research. She likes reading books if they are not assigned to her.

Austerlitz, the final and best-known novel of the German author W. G. Sebald, is like most of his oeuvre defiant of a traditional categorization. It is a novel masquerading as a biography, rife with eclectic photographs that—more often than not—deliberately don’t belong to what’s being described. A masterful blending of fact an fiction, the book starts at the Antwerp Central Station and takes the reader on a melancholic journey through Europe and through half-remembered memories of a man in search of his past.

Practicalities:

  • When: Thursday 28th of May 2026 - 5.30 pm
  • Where: De Groene Waterman - Wolstraat 7, 2000 Antwerp
  • Participation is free. Monetary contributions are appreciated but remain completely voluntary.
  • Please register by sending an e-mail to groenewaterman@groenewaterman.be

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