On the Natural History of Destruction (Modern Library Classics (Paperback)) - Softcover

Sebald, W.G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375756574 ISBN 13: 9780375756573

Verlag: Modern Library Inc, 2004

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Book by Sebald WG

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Críticas:

"Most writers, even good ones, write of what can be written. . . . The very greatest write of what cannot be written. . . . I think of Akhmatova and Primo Levi, for example, and of W. G. Sebald."
--The New York Times

"[Sebald] is writing about what he regards as a disquieting refusal to face facts--not only about what was done to the nation, but by implication, by the nation. . . . No better future for humankind is possible if we do less than look upon the crimes of our past, and their catastrophic results, with 'a steadfast gaze.'"
--The Boston Sunday Globe

"This may well be the last of Sebald's writing we'll ever have, so how amazing--and fitting--it is that it seems, in a fashion as uncanny as his prose and perceptions could often be, to close the circle of the ruminations that preoccupied his writing life."
--The Washington Post

"Sebald approaches his subject with sensitivity, yet avoids neither descriptions of horrible carnage nor criticism of writers too preoccupied with absolving themselves of blame to faithfully portray a destroyed Germany. The result is a balanced explication of devastation and denial, and a beautiful coda for Sebald."
--Booklist

"The secret of Sebald's appeal is that he saw himself in what now seems almost an old-fashioned way as a voice of conscience, someone who remembers injustice, who speaks for those who can no longer speak."
--The New York Review of Books

Reseña del editor:

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. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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• Verlag: Modern Library Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375756574
• ISBN 13: 9780375756573
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224