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Transit
- Title
- Transit / by Anna Seghers ; introduction by Peter Conrad ; translated by Margot Dembo ; afterword by Heinrich Böll.
- Author
- Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, ©2013.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 13-3880 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
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- Additional Authors
- Dembo, Margot Bettauer
- Description
- xv, 257 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "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."--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Transit. English.
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Transit.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-3880
- ISBN
- 9781590176252
- 1590176251
- LCCN
- 2012044953
- 40022472863
- OCLC
- 807024543
- 807024543
- Author
- Seghers, Anna, 1900-1983.
- Title
- Transit / by Anna Seghers ; introduction by Peter Conrad ; translated by Margot Dembo ; afterword by Heinrich Böll.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, ©2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Chronological Term
- 1939-1945
- Added Author
- Dembo, Margot Bettauer, translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40022472863
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-3880