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On the Natural History of Destruction

by W.G. Sebald. An extended essay on the ‘scandalous deficiency’ of texts about the Allied bombing of Germany. This is an astonishing book. I put off reading it for ages, due to the specialist nature of its thesis: the paucity of German texts about the Allied bombing of Germany in the Second World War. But… Continue reading On the Natural History of Destruction

Published 03-Mar-2012
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Sebaldian Tags: sebald
‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘Vertigo’ by W.G. Sebald

File under Sebaldian.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, Fiction, History, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, sebald
‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘The Emigrants’ by W.G. Sebald

File under Sebaldian.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, Fiction, History, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, sebald
‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘Campo Santo’ by W.G. Sebald

File under Sebaldian.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, History, Sebaldian Tags: sebald
‘Austerlitz’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘Austerlitz’ by W.G. Sebald

A haunting novel.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Fiction, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, sebald
The Emergence of Memory

Book review: ‘The Emergence of Memory’ by Lynne Sharon Schwartz (ed.)

Interviews with, and essays about, the late W.G. Sebald.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Culture Tags: reviews, sebald
‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald

Book review: ‘The Rings of Saturn’ by W.G. Sebald

Unclassifiable masterpiece.

Published 18-Dec-2011
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Culture, Fiction, History, Nature Writing, Sebaldian Tags: sebald

W.G. Sebald ten years on

Thoughts on WG Sebald on the tenth anniversary of his death.

Published 14-Dec-2011
Filed under: Nonsense Tags: books, sebald

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