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W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001. On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. In it, the acclaimed 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 void in history is in part a repression of things -- such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF -- too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.
Sebald's incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebald's intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics.
Mouseear: Two rare books on the topic of allied air-bombings of German cities and German post-war suffering. Dagerman is actually one of few foreign witnesses to the conditions immediately after the war mentioned in Sebald's book.
Libro e breve e doloroso che fa rivivere la barbarie dei bombardamenti a tappeto: quelli sulla Germania dimenticati dagli altri (perchè i tedeschi se l'erano cercata) sia dai tedeschi (tra ammenda dei prorpi errori e autodifesa mentale). Nella memoria restano soprattutto l'esigenza di bombardare perchè ormai le bombe erano costruite nonchè la descrizione sconvolgente del rogo di Amburgo e delle sue conseguenze anche psicologiche: per non dimenticare l'orrore della guerra specie in giorni come i nostri che ne vedono un'altra in Europa. ( )
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The lectures on literature and the air raids of the Second World War in this volume are not printed exactly as I delivered them in the late autumn of 1997. - Foreword
Today it is hard to form an even partly adequate idea of the extent of the devestation suffered by the cities of Germany in the last years of the Second World War, still harder to think about the horrors involved in that devestation.
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W.G. Sebald completed this extraordinary and important -- and already controversial -- book before his untimely death in December 2001. On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. In it, the acclaimed 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 void in history is in part a repression of things -- such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF -- too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.
Sebald's incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebald's intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics.
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Nella memoria restano soprattutto l'esigenza di bombardare perchè ormai le bombe erano costruite nonchè la descrizione sconvolgente del rogo di Amburgo e delle sue conseguenze anche psicologiche: per non dimenticare l'orrore della guerra specie in giorni come i nostri che ne vedono un'altra in Europa. ( )