On the Natural History of Destruction - Rilegato

Sebald, Winfried Georg

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ISBN 10: 0375504842 ISBN 13: 9780375504846

Casa editrice: Random House Inc, 2003

Riassunto

In a profound, thought-provoking meditation, the award-winning author of After Nature reflects on the the topics of individual and collective guilt, the consequences of denying the past, and the need to reclaim history as he examines why Germans have maintained silence on World War II, the Allied bombing that destroyed German cities, and the resulting devastation. 35,000 first printing.

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"Most writers, even good ones, write of what can be written; and move by their own angles into the discourse of their day. The very greatest write of what cannot be written; gravitating not toward the discourse but toward the silence. They break it, like the crust on untrodden snow. I think of [Anna] Akhmatova and Primo Levi, for example, and of W. G. Sebald, who died in 2001."
-Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review

"Sebald is the real thing. . . . Sublime."
-The Globe and Mail

L'autore:

W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland, and Manchester. He taught at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, for thirty years, becoming professor of European literature in 1987, and from 1989 to 1994 was the first director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. His previously translated books—The Rings of Saturn, The Emigrants, Vertigo, and Austerlitz—have won a number of international awards, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, the Berlin Literature Prize, and the Literatur Nord Prize. He died in December 2001.

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• Editore: Random House Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375504842
• ISBN 13: 9780375504846
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 202