His last novel, Austerlitz, is called the pinnacle of the work of W.G. Sebald, one of the most idiosyncratic modern writers - it is an epic meditation on the trauma of the Holocaust and its consequences for the fate of an individual person. Through the prism of personal experience, the novel also reflects the wars exhausting humanity and the 20th century. the extent of the destruction of civilization. Meeting Sebald's work for the first time, K. Lupa believes that this writer's literature can initiate changes in the language of theater.
After Austerlitz, Sebald was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. Unfortunately, the writer died unexpectedly in the same year. After the author's death, "Austerlitz" was translated into many languages of the world and became a classic of modern literature, and a cult book in the United States and Great Britain. The publishing house "Baltos lankos" plans to publish the Lithuanian translation of "Austerlico" in autumn (translated by Rūta Jonynaitė).
The events of Austerlico span six decades, from 1939 to the turn of the century. The action takes place in Antwerp, Wales, Oxford, London, Paris, Prague, Terezin, Marienbad... Historical events have ended before the beginning of the story. Sebald describes almost the last three years of the 20th century. chance encounters between the narrator and the lonely wanderer Austerlitz in different European cities over the decades. Until adulthood, Austerlitz did not know his real name or who his parents were. A five-year-old boy was sent by his mother to London on the life train from Prague, just before his deportation to the Terezin concentration camp. The father is missing. Austerlitz was adopted under a different name and grew up in Wales, studied at Oxford, settled in London after his studies and worked in the 20th century. architectural research. Lived without memory until he was struck by a flash of memory at Liverpool station, where he had once been brought by the train of life. Then he started searching for his childhood home and parents. But returning home to Prague only deepened Austerlitz's sense of isolation, and only the search for traces of his parents gives his life meaning...
Spectators are admitted to the performance from the age of 16.
