“Everything I have, I carry with me.” The Hunger Angel follows Leo Auberg, a young man from Romania, who is deported to a Soviet labor camp after World […]
German literature
The Emigrants
“Memory, the insistent revenant, like the dog that always finds its way back to its vomit.” — W. G. Sebald, The Emigrants Dr. Henry Selwyn The first section […]
German literature
Austerlitz
“And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.” Part One The narrator recounts his encounters with Jacques Austerlitz, a man he first meets in the 1960s […]
French literature
Hiroshima Mon Amour
“You saw nothing in Hiroshima. Nothing.” Hiroshima Mon Amour is a haunting exploration of memory, love, and trauma, structured as a dialogue between a French actress and a […]
American literature
The Paper Palace
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” — William Faulkner Chapter 1: The Morning After Elle Bishop wakes up at “The Paper Palace,” her family’s rustic […]
American literature
Beloved
“Sixty Million and more.” — Toni Morrison, Beloved Part One Sethe, a formerly enslaved woman, lives with her daughter Denver in a haunted house at 124 Bluestone Road […]