Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

Author:W. G. Sebald [Sebald, W. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Historical
ISBN: 9780679645412
Google: VdyX7pvB_x8C
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

The entire building, from the outside more like a mansion house than anything else, therefore consists of four wings, each not much more than three meters deep, set around the courtyard in an almost Illusionist manner and without any corridors or passages in them. It is a style resembling the prison architecture of the bourgeois epoch, when it was decided that the most useful design for the penal system was to build wings of cells around a rectangular or circular courtyard, with catwalks running along the interior. And it was not just of a prison that the archives building in the Karmelitská reminded me, said Austerlitz; it also suggested a monastery, a riding school, an opera house, and a lunatic asylum, and all these ideas mingled in my mind as I looked at the twilight coming in from above, and thought that on the rows of galleries I saw a dense crowd of people, some of them waving hats or handkerchiefs, as passengers on board a steamer used to do when it put out to sea.

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