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On the natural history of destruction : with essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Améry and Peter Weiss / W.G. Sebald ; translated from the German by Anthea Bell.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: London : Hamish Hamilton, 2003Description: x, 205 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0241141265
  • 9780241141267
Uniform titles:
  • Luftkrieg und literatur. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.544941 21
Contents:
Air War and Literature: Zurich Lectures -- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: On Alfred Andersch -- Against the Irreversible: On Jean Amery -- The Remorse of the Heart: On Memory and Cruelty in the Work of Peter Weiss.
Review: "In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. Yet German writers have been strangely silent about this mass destruction. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his own life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror?" "W. G. Sebald's essays on literature and the air raids of the Second World War sparked off a wide-ranging debate in the German press when they were published in 1999. This is the first of Sebald's non-fiction books to be translated into English."--BOOK JACKET.
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Air War and Literature: Zurich Lectures -- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: On Alfred Andersch -- Against the Irreversible: On Jean Amery -- The Remorse of the Heart: On Memory and Cruelty in the Work of Peter Weiss.

"In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. Yet German writers have been strangely silent about this mass destruction. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his own life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror?" "W. G. Sebald's essays on literature and the air raids of the Second World War sparked off a wide-ranging debate in the German press when they were published in 1999. This is the first of Sebald's non-fiction books to be translated into English."--BOOK JACKET.

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