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On the Natural History of Destruction is a 1999 book by the German writer W. G. Sebald. Its original German title is Luftkrieg und Literatur , which means "Air war and literature". It consists of essays about literature and writers, through which Sebald discusses the German processing of World War II .
- Winfried Georg Sebald
- 1999
6. Juni 2022 · On the natural history of destruction. by. Sebald, Winfried Georg, 1944-2001. Publication date. 2003. Topics. World War, 1939-1945 -- Literature and the war, German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism, Bombing, Aerial -- Germany, World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany. Publisher.
Sebald provides key insights as to how that universal agreement in Germany, at the end of World War II, evolved. He describes in painful, even horrifying detail, the firebombing of Hamburg on July 27, 1943. The burned corpses in the street, the resulting rubble and collapse of infrastructure.
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On the Natural History of Destruction is his harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined silences of our time. In it, the novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture. This historical void is ...
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17. Feb. 2004 · Paperback – February 17, 2004. 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.
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- Winfried Georg Sebald
- $15.99
- Modern Library
24. Feb. 2023 · On the Natural History of Destruction« – so hieß in englischer Ausgabe W. G. Sebalds Essay »Luftkrieg und Literatur«, der 1999 die weitgehende Abwesenheit des Bombenkriegs in der deutschen Nachkriegsliteratur beklagte.
22. Juni 2011 · 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...
