
On the Natural History of Destruction
W.G. Sebald(Author)
Modern Library Inc (Publisher)
Published on 17. February 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-375-75657-3 (ISBN)
Description
During World War Two, 131 German cities and towns were targeted by Allied bombs, a good number almost entirely flattened. Six hundred thousand German civilians died--a figure twice that of all American war casualties. Seven and a half million Germans were left homeless. Given the astonishing scope of the devastation, W. G. Sebald asks, why does the subject occupy so little space in Germany's cultural memory? On the Natural History of Destruction probes deeply into this ominous silence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Random House USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
PHOTOS THROUGHOUT
Dimensions
Height: 205 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
171 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-375-75657-3 (9780375756573)
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W. G. Sebald
On the Natural History of Destruction
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06/2011
1st Edition
Vintage Canada
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Persons
W.G. Sebald taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming Professor of European Literature in 1987. His books won several international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Berlin Literature Prize. He died at age 57 in 2001.