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[...] As Roland Barthes rightly says in his Camera Lucida, a book with which Austerlitz is in deep dialogue, photographs shock us because they so finally represent what has been. We look at most old photographs, and we think: 'That person is going to die, and is in fact now dead.' Barthes cal…

The human seems to have been reified by time

Austerlitz is a voluble scholar

In poetry, this failure to stop at the end of the line, this challenge to metrical closure, this desire to get more in, is called enjambment.