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    On the Natural History of Destruction

    Written by W.G. Sebald

    Narrated by Simon Vance

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    W.G. Sebald's military classic, On the Natural History of Destruction, will now be available for the first time in audio!

    On the Natural History of Destruction is W.G. Sebald's harrowing and precise investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. In it, the acclaimed novelist examines the devastation of German cities by Allied bombardment, and the reasons for the astonishing absence of this unprecedented trauma from German history and culture.

    This void in history is in part a repression of things—such as the death by fire of the city of Hamburg at the hands of the RAF—too terrible to bear. But rather than record the crises about them, writers sought to retrospectively justify their actions under the Nazis. For Sebald, this is an example of deliberate cultural amnesia; his analysis of its effects in and outside Germany has already provoked angry and painful debate.

    Sebald's incomparable novels are rooted in meticulous observation; his essays are novelistic. They include his childhood recollections of the war that spurred his horror at the collective amnesia around him. There are moments of black humour and, throughout, the unmatched sensitivity of Sebald's intelligence. This book is a vital study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics.

    Cover credits:
    Photograph: World War II Berlin, 1945, by Yevgeny Khaldej/Granger www.granger.com.
    Design: Peter Hassiepen/Hanser.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 6, 2018
    ISBN9780525631453
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    On the Natural History of Destruction
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    W.G. Sebald

    W. G. Sebald (1944-2001) nació en Wertach, Alemania. Después de acabar sus estudios universitarios vivió en Suiza, y luego se trasladó a Inglaterra. Desde 1970 fue profesor en Norwich. Entre sus galardones figuran el premio Joseph Breitbach, el Heinrich Heine y, en 2002, el Independent Foreign Fiction por Austerlitz. En Anagrama se han publicado Del natural, Vértigo, Pútrida patria, Los emigrados, Los anillos de Saturno, Sobre la historia natural de la destrucción, Austerlitz y Campo Santo.

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