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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Winfried Georg Sebald |
| ISBN: | 0375504842 9780375504846 |
| OCLC Number: | 50023600 |
| Description: | x, 202 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Air war and literature : Zürich lectures -- Between the devil and the deep blue sea : on Alfred Andersch -- Against the irreversible : on Jean Améry -- The remorse of the heart : on memory and cruelty in the work of Peter Weiss. |
| Other Titles: | Luftkrieg und Literatur. |
| Responsibility: | W.G. Sebald ; translated by Anthea Bell. |
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Abstract:
This book is acclaimed German novelist Sebald's investigation of one of the least examined "silences" of our time. He 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 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. 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. It addresses questions that arise when communities must heal from self-inflicted wounds. This book is a study of suffering and forgetting, of the morality hidden in artistic decisions, and of both compromised and genuine heroics.--From publisher description.
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