Having escaped from a Nazi concentration camp in Germany in 1937,
and later a camp in Rouen, the nameless twenty-seven-year-old
German narrator of Anna Seghers's multilayered masterpiece,
Transit, ends up in the dusty seaport of Marseilles. Along the way
he is asked to deliver a letter to a man named Weidel in Paris and
discovers Weidel has committed suicide, leaving behind a suitcase
with letters and the manuscript of a novel inside. As he makes his
way to Marseilles to find Weidel's wife, the narrator assumes the
identity of a refugee named Seidler, though the authorities think
he is really Weidel. There in the giant waiting room of Marseilles,
the narrator converses with the refugees, listening to their
stories over pizza and wine, while also gradually piecing together
the story of Weidel, whose manuscript has shattered the narrator's
"deathly boredom," bringing him to a deeper awareness of the
transitory world the refugees inhabit as they wait and wait for
their transit papers, some leaving, only to disappear into
internment camps. Several years before Waiting for Godot, Seghers
wrote this existential, political, literary thriller that explores
the significance of literature and the agonies of boredom and
waiting with extraordinary compassion and insight.
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