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On the Natural History of Destruction

Sebald, W. G
Publisher:  Knopf Canada
Year Published:  2003   First Published:  1999
Pages:  205pp   Price:  $35.95   ISBN:  0-676-97529-1
Library of Congress Number:  PT405.S4313 2003a   Dewey:  833'.91409358
Resource Type:  Book

Sebald's subject matter is memory and its uncertain connection to the past. In this non-fiction work he turns his attention to the German homefront experience of the Second World War. He questions the postwar push to look to the future and ignore the past. He critiques the silence of German writers who were incapable of writing realistically about their own experiences or worse, who refurbished their own pasts. In his book he attempts to "cast some light on the way in which individual, collective and cultural memory deals with experiences exceeding what is tolerable".

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Table of Contents

Foreword
1. Air War and Literature
2. Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
3. Against the Irreversible
4. The Remorse of the Heart
Notes

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