On the natural history of destruction
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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. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction.
Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction explores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destruction
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. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his 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 On the Natural History of Destruction sparked a wide-ranging debate in the German press.
'Sebald makes exquisite art out of vile history' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
'One of the most important writers of our time' A.S. Byatt, New Statesman
'Demands to be read for its grand emotional power ... it absorbs and horrifies and illuminates' Scotsman
'Brilliant and disturbing' Antony Beevor, The Times
W . G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1996 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Campo Santo, Unrecounted, For Years Now and A Place in the Country. His selected poetry is published in a volume called Across the Land and the Water.
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Taal: en
Uitvoering: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 maart 2004
Aantal pagina's: 224
Illustraties: Nee
Eerste Vertaler: Anthea Bell
Tweede Vertaler: Anthea Bell
Hoofdauteur: W.G. Sebald
Tweede Auteur: W G Sebald
Co Auteur: Winfried Georg Sebald
Hoofduitgeverij: Penguin Books Ltd
Fabrikantgegevens: De informatie van de fabrikant is momenteel niet beschikbaar.
Editie: 1
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 198 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 130 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 197 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 336 g
EAN: 9780140298000