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| Title | : | Transit |
| Author | : | Anna Seghers |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 290 pages |
| Published | : | 2003 by Aufbau (first published 1944) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Cultural. Germany |
Anna Seghers
Paperback | Pages: 290 pages Rating: 3.74 | 1437 Users | 157 Reviews
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“Transit” is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers’ own odyssey during the Second World War.
The most obvious meaning, which is the main topic of the novel, refers to a document required of people stuck in Marseille and trying to leave France for America. In addition to the pain of acquiring a visa, a costly ticket (for an actually leaving ship), and a visa de sortie, people need to apply for a “transit visa” to all countries they will be passing through on the journey. As a character puts it cynically: it is to testify and guarantee that they won’t stay where they are not well received! It also alludes to the status that the traumatised, fleeing people have in Marseille. They are only allowed to be there as long as they can prove that they are planning to leave the country. In an endless chain of almost dreamlike and bizarre bureaucracy, the owners of transit visa are lucky and more advanced in their state of transition than those who still fight for visa. There is a hierarchy in Transitland.
Transit also becomes a way to measure time in the strange world of waiting people, dwelling in cafés and discussing their chances to move on. Their perception of time slowly adjusts to the validity of their various documents needed for the journey, and they live from deadline to deadline.
On a more philosophical level, transit symbolises the change of people’s minds as a direct effect of their uprooted existence during the war. The lives they lived before the war are forever lost, and the stranded people are still waiting for their new lives to start - maybe, somewhere, somehow. In the meantime, they are in transit, completing the metamorphosis from pre-war to post-war persons.
That is why the main character experiences transit as the fleeting moment connecting past and future, without explaining either. The here and now is just as incomprehensible as what happened before, and as strange and undefined as what will come next.
“Transit” tells the story of war from the perspective of people who try to get away from it, but are stuck between two worlds in a passive-aggressive no-man’s land. It tells the story of those who live their lives on the border between war and peace, life and death, past and future, and who change in the process, within themselves, towards others, in their relationships.
The torture of waiting, of suffering passivity, of longing for unreachable safety while having to play a tedious game of respectable bureaucracy - it is as true a tale of war as the one more often told of battles and strategies! Highly recommended as a complement to other fiction describing the brutality of war.
Sic transit gloria mundi!
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| Original Title: | Transit |
| ISBN: | 3746651530 (ISBN13: 9783746651538) |
| Edition Language: | German |
| Setting: | Marseille (Marseilles)(France) |
| Literary Awards: | PEN Translation Prize Nominee for Margot Bettauer Dembo (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.74 From 1437 Users | 157 ReviewsWrite-Up Epithetical Books Transit
Transit is the perfect title for this masterpiece of refugee fiction!There are so many layers of meaning in that short word, all symbolically integrated in the straightforward, realistic story, mirroring Anna Seghers own odyssey during the Second World War.The most obvious meaning, which is the main topic of the novel, refers to a document required of people stuck in Marseille and trying to leave France for America. In addition to the pain of acquiring a visa, a costly ticket (for an actuallyAn incredible novel, written in a surreal time, while the writer was living in exile in Mexico, Anna Seghers (having left Germany in 1933 to settle in France) was forced (with her husband and two children) to flee from Marseille in 1940, the only port in France at that time that still flew the French flag, the rest under German occupation.With the help of Varian Fry, (Surrender on Demand) an American who came to Marseille to help artists, writers, intellectuals escape Europe, they found safe
This is the WORST book I have ever read! NOT ONLY is it filled with Ennui but it gives you crippling Ennui! I read the unabridged versions of both the Iliad and the Odyssey and Victor Hugo's unabridged Les Miserables, (and thoroughly enjoyed each) but nothing bored me and frustrated me more than Transit did. It's presented as a thriller, which it is anything but. IT'S NOT ENGAGING. Each chapter was TORTUOUSLY filled with her political ideology which was shoved down our throats, but to make
"An existential thriller" it says on the back cover and I think that's so, although maybe more existential than thriller. Which I mean as a compliment.Our unnamed first-person protagonist has escaped from a Nazi concentration camp and is now in Marseille. There is a plot involving a letter he is to take to a man named Weidel, only to find that Weidel has committed suicide. He cloaks himself, instead, in Weidel's identity. He does what, it seems, everyone does in France, going from one café to
I'm honestly very surprised that so many people liked this book. I literally just read a 5-page analysis trying to make Transit seem like an incredible, tragically underrated novel and I'm still not convinced.I will admit that Transit provides an intriguing insight into the awful struggles refugees face(d), especially during WWII. This is not simply an author's interpretation of how they think refugees felt as they strove to reach a place where they could be safe and free: these are trials that
I had never heard of Anna Seghers until a few days ago. Now, having read Transit, I think she is one of the five greatest 20th century authors writing in German. Transit is about refugees displaced by the Nazi invasion of France holed up in Marseilles desperately trying to collect the exit visas, transit visas, final destination visas, and shipping tickets allowing them to seek safety. The narrator is a German camp escapee who has assumed the identity of a writer who had committed suicide in
Well written book detailing the life of a refugee in transit during WWII. A rarely told story of the uncertainty, fear, hopelessness and boredom faced by the refugees and they tried to muddle through the government bureaucracy to exit to a country anywhere but where they came from.
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