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In June 1940, the Nazi troops, having quickly marched across France, occupied Paris.
weeks or several years, and perhaps until his death, ”the hero of the novel “Transit” by Anna Segers, the young German Seidler, who fled from the camp, recalled these days. Masses of emigrants have accumulated in Marseille - people of different nations. To get an exit visa, a ticket for a steamboat, to have time to leave France before the Nazis occupied it entirely - the exiles aspired to this. Endless queues lined up at the doors of the consulates of those countries where one could find refuge from the Nazis.
The novel "Transit" is written in the first person, and this enhances its lyrical intonation. The novel is permeated with that anxiety, a sense of timelessness, spiritual confusion that thousands of persecuted people who lost their homes experienced in those days. And, perhaps, this confusion was especially acute for those whose life goals had not been determined, who felt like a leaf torn off a branch, rushing to who knows where and who knows why in some wild whirlwind.