Summary Of Transit By Anna Seghers

Transit a book by Anna Seghers the narrator has multiple associations what a vast amount of character that he meets throughout his journey in France. However there are some characters that have a more distinct and important relationship towards the narrator and help set all the events of the journey into motion. The relationship that does occur is between the narrator and Paul Strobel.
The narrator gets introduced to Paul inside one of the Nazi concentration camps, although later they were separated after both have them had a chance to escape. The two eventually crossed paths again when the narrator spotted Paul on a street in Paris. The narrator still accepts Paul as his companion so he accepted taking an errand from Paul. Paul would ask of the narrator if he would deliver a letter to a writer by the name of Weidel. In the process of arriving the letter he finds out that Weidel had committed suicide. Once he finds out about this he decides to take
He was said to have been a funny and joyful companion, with a small dose of craziness. When the narrator had the chance to meet him once again he was pleased to do him a favor of delivering a letter to Weidel. Later on when the narrator goes to Marseille along with Weidel’s belongings he loses contact with Paul. Once again we go through the fact that the narrator needs someone to authenticate his identity, which would state that Seidel and Wiedel are the same person. He meets Paul again at this point of his journey and asks for the assistance he needs. Paul does what is asked without any second though and the narrator is pleased. After this the narrator believes that Paul is some sort of idiot. Then a funny coincidence is that during a conversation they had, Paul gives the idea of him being clever because he was only conversing like this. Once Paul assisted him, the narrator doesn’t look forward to seeing him