Transit Transit

Transit

Anna Seghers and Others
    • 3.7 • 17 Ratings
    • $9.99
    • $9.99

Publisher Description

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.
     
Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937, and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old German narrator of Seghers’s multilayered masterpiece ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseille. Along the way he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase containing letters and the manuscript of a novel. As he makes his way to Marseille to find Weidel’s widow, the narrator assumes the identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseille, the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrator’s “deathly boredom,” bringing him to a deeper awareness of the transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for that most precious of possessions: transit papers.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
May 7
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
280
Pages
PUBLISHER
New York Review Books
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
924
KB

Customer Reviews

As if I would say ,

It's certainly something...

It isn't bad. It's just overwhelming and at times dull with just the repetitiveness of everything which I suppose is a pretty good representation of the transit system they had in place.

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