On the Natural History of Destruction by Wg Sebald

On the Natural History of Destruction by Wg Sebald

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.

Sebald was born in 1944 in Wertach im Allgau, Germany. In Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester, he studied German language and literature. He spent thirty years as a professor of European literature at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, and was the founding director of the British Centre for Literary Translation from 1989 to 1994. The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz, which he previously translated, have won numerous international honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literary Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. In December of 2001, he passed away. This is an excerpt from the Hardcover edition.

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ISBN 13	9780375756573
ISBN 10	0375756574
Title	On the Natural History of Destruction
Author	Wg Sebald
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-02-17
Number of pages	224
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