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On the Natural History of Destruction

by W.G. Sebald

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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 observ...

First published 2011 176 pages
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Literature
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DDC 800 LCC P
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ISBN 9780307365835 English
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