On the Natural History of Destruction - With essays on Alfred Andersch, Jean Améry and Peter Weiss

Informationen zum Autor W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany, in 1944 and died in December 2001. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia and is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction , Unrecounted, Campo Santo , A Place in the Country and a selection of poetry, Across the Land and the Water . Klappentext W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants , The Rings of Saturn , Vertigo , Austerlitz , After Nature , On the Natural History of Destruction , Unrecounted , Campo Santo and Silent Catastrophes among other publications. Zusammenfassung In the last years of World War II, a million tons of bombs were dropped by the Allies on one hundred and thirty-one German towns and cities. This title explores German writers' strange silence about a moment of mass destruction.

Product details

• Authors: Anthea Bell, W G Sebald, W. G. Sebald, Winfried Georg Sebald, Sebald W. G.
• Assisted by: Anthea Bell (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.03.2004
• EAN: 9780140298000
• ISBN: 978-0-14-029800-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Germany, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Second World War, Social and cultural history, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Warfare and defence, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, News media and journalism, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater