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Sto caricando le informazioni... The End: Hamburg 1943di Hans Erich Nossack
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Lo scrittore Hans Erich Nossack era in vacanza in campagna quando,alla fine del luglio 1943,i bombardamenti incendiari angloamericani rasero al suolo Amburgo,la sua città. Dalla sua casa di là dall'Elba potè assistere alla distruzione della città durata quattro giorni e alla successiva fiumana di profughi in cerca di salvezza. Ritornato poi lui stesso in città,fu protagonista,in un paesaggio infernale di macerie e di morte,del lento riprendere della vita. "La fine" è la memoria immediata di quei giorni: scritta solo tre mesi dopo e pubblicata nel dopoguerra in un volume di racconti,costituisce una delle rarissime testimonianze dirette sui bombardamenti delle città tedesche,testimonianza che restituisce,ancora vivido a distanza di cinquanta anni,tutto l'orrore e lo sgomento di coloro che li hanno vissuti. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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One didn't dare to inhale for fear of breathing it in. It was the sound of eighteen hundred airplanes approaching Hamburg from the south at an unimaginable height. We had already experienced two hundred or even more air raids, among them some very heavy ones, but this was something completely new. And yet there was an immediate recognition: this was what everyone had been waiting for, what had hung for months like a shadow over everything we did, making us weary. It was the end. Novelist Hans Erich Nossack was forty-two when the Allied bombardments of German cities began, and he watched the destruction of Hamburg--the city where he was born and where he would later die--from across its Elbe River. He heard the whistle of the bombs and the singing of shrapnel; he watched his neighbors flee; he wondered if his home--and his manuscripts--would survive the devastation. The End is his terse, remarkable memoir of the annihilation of the city, written only three months after the bombing. A searing firsthand account of one of the most notorious events of World War II, The End is also a meditation on war and hope, history and its devastation. And it is the rare book, as W. G. Sebald noted, that describes the Allied bombing campaign from the German perspective. In the first English-language edition of The End, Nossack's text has been crisply translated by Joel Agee and is accompanied by the photographs of Erich Andres. Poetic, evocative, and yet highly descriptive, The End will prove to be, as Sebald claimed, one of the most important German books on the firebombing of that country. "A small but critical book, something to read in those quiet moments when we wonder what will happen next."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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