Events

Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Book Reading Club and Discussion Group

On Monday, February 28th the Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Book Reading Club and Discussion Group will meet to discuss the book Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald.

In W. G. Sebald’s Austerlitz, an unnamed narrator meets Jaques Austerlitz at a train station only to begin a discussion of European architecture.  Over the years these two meet again and again with their discussions varying across many topics as Austerlitz searches for the answer to his life’s central riddle.  Difficult to characterize, the book is considered one of the most significant German works of fiction published since World War II.  As with most of W. G. Sebald's work, the text includes many black and white, unlabeled photographs and adventurously strays from traditional formats of plot and narrative.  An examination of the past and present and the experience of time, Austerlitz is the award-winning novel-memoir of one man’s struggle to rescue his heritage from oblivion.

Participants are asked to come prepared with an understanding of the assigned reading and openness to discussion.

The Foundation’s Co-Director Alexander C. Ives will lead the group discussion.

All the Book Reading Club and Discussion Group meetings are held at 1pm on a Monday in the Robert M. Grace Library at the Preservation Foundation’s offices located at 311 Peruvian Avenue in Palm Beach.