On the Natural History of Destruction
1st Edition
Published on 22. June 2011
224 pages
978-0-307-36583-5 (ISBN)
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W. G. Sebald completed this extraordinary, important and controversial book before his untimely death in December 2001. It is a harrowing study of the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment in World War II, and an examination of the silence in German literature and culture about this unprecedented trauma. On the Natural History of Destruction is an essential and deeply relevant study of war and society, suffering and amnesia. Like Sebald's novels, it is studded with meticulous observation, moments of black humour, and throughout, the author's unmatched intelligence and humanity.
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W.G. Sebald
On the Natural History of Destruction
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02/2004
Modern Library Inc
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Winfried Georg Sebald
On the Natural History of Destruction
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02/2003
Random House (NY)
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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.
