Austerlitz (Penguin Essentials)

it really seemed to me, said Austerlitz, as if time had stood still since the day when I first left Prague.

the fluttering of white handkerchiefs like a flock of doves taking off into the air as the parents who were staying behind waved to their children,

As far back as I can remember, said Austerlitz, I have always felt as if I had no place in reality, as if I were not there at all, and I never had this impression more strongly than on that evening in the Šporkova when the eyes of the Rose Queen’s page looked through me.

measures to be taken by the State Police. The Jew concerned in the transaction! Agáta had cried, adding: Really, the way these people write!

Auschowitz Springs.

to my surprise, Austerlitz articulated these heterogeneous German compounds unhesitatingly and without the slightest trace of an accent

Only in the books written in earlier times did she sometimes think she found some faint idea of what it might be like to be alive.

every time we reached the page which described the snow falling through the branches of the trees, soon to shroud the entire forest floor, I would look up at her and ask: But if it’s all white, how do the squirrels know where they’ve buried their hoard? Ale když všechno zakryje sníh, jak veverky najdou to místo, kde si schovaly zásoby? Those were y

I remember, said Vĕra, Austerlitz added,