{"product_id":"9780140298000-on-the-natural-history-of-destructi","title":"On The Natural History Of Destruction","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSebald's \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction \u003c\/i\u003eexplores German writers' silence about a moment of mass destruction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. Six hundred thousand civilians died, and three and a half million homes were destroyed. When it has cast such a very dark shadow over his life and work, Sebald asks, how have so many writers allowed themselves to write it out of their experience and avoid articulating the horror? W.G. Sebald's \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction\u003c\/i\u003e sparked a wide-ranging debate in the German press.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Sebald makes exquisite art out of vile history'  Boyd Tonkin, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'One of the most important writers of our time'  A.S. Byatt, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Demands to be read for its grand emotional power . it absorbs and horrifies and illuminates'  \u003ci\u003eScotsman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Brilliant and disturbing'  Antony Beevor,\u003ci\u003e The Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW . 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 1996 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVertigo\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Austerlitz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAfter Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOn the Natural History of Destruction,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCampo Santo,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eUnrecounted, For Years Now\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Place in the Country\u003c\/i\u003e. His selected poetry is published in a volume called \u003ci\u003eAcross the Land and the Water.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40574074191969,"sku":"9780140298000","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_32250081.jpg?v=1737103012","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780140298000-on-the-natural-history-of-destructi","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}