Transit (New York Review Books Classics) 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
| TITLE | : | Transit (New York Review Books Classics) |
| AUTHOR | : | |
| RATING | : | 4.69 (417 Votes) |
| ASIN | : | 1590176251 |
| FORMAT TYPE | : | Paperback |
| NUMBER of PAGES | : | 280 Pages |
| PUBLISH DATE | : | 2013-05-07 |
| GENRE | : |
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
EDITORIAL :
“This novel, completed in 1942, is in my opinion the most beautiful Seghers has written. I doubt that our post-1933 literature can point to many novels that have been written with such somnambulistic sureness and are almost flawless.” —Heinrich Böll
“Tranist belongs to those books that entered my life, and to which I continue to engage with in my writing, so much that I have to pick it up every couple years to see what has happened between me and it.” —Christa Wolf
“Transit is Seghers' best full-length novel. And Transit may be the greatest Exilroman ever…” —Dialog International
“Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe…Tr
REVIEW :
I believe many problems related to ADHD happen because the public is not educated enough about ADHD, and because of this, we seem to have a big outbreak of ADHD today. I own a copy of this book.. It also provides Axis I and Axis II diagnostic suggestions. There's a lot of superflous material here to pad out the pages between the messages and a coherent story still fails to materialize.
Add in the cliches (e.g., our main character saying that love is useless so we have a smoking gun for the romance on the next page) and it became somewhat numbing after awhile. A T-Rex. Just a few pages into the book, I began experiencing little "sparks of hope", something I had not had prior to picking up this book. There are great photo's and descriptions. Amazon were great and returned it without complaint.. For my 3rd round, I went in standing tall and feeling strong. There's also a chapter
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