1982
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0730.1982.tb01046.x
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Zwischen Geschichte und Naturgeschichte ‐Versuch über die literarische Beschreibung totaler Zerstörung mit Anmerkungen zu Kasack, Nossack und Kluge.

Abstract: Der Essay 'Zwischen Geschichte und Naturgeschichte' versucht die langst iiberfallige Frage zu beantworten, weshalb die von Millionen Deutschen in den letzten Kriegsjahren miterlebten Luftangriffe auf deutsche Stadte und die von dieser Zerstorung katastrophalen Ausmasses bewirkte radikale Veranderung der gesellschaftlichen Lebensformen in der deutschen Literatur kaum je behandelt wurde. Abgesehen von literaturkritischen Fragen kommen dabei okonomische, politische, sozialpsychologische und naturhistorische Dimen… Show more

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“…VI of Freud's Studienausgabe (Hysterie und Angst) (1971) (c. 50 annotations) and been familiar with all four of his essays on Levi and Améry. Susanne Vees-Gulani makes no reference to his highly relevant 'Zwischen Geschichte und Naturgeschichte' (Sebald, 1982b) (cf. Wilms, 2006.…”
Section: Booksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…VI of Freud's Studienausgabe (Hysterie und Angst) (1971) (c. 50 annotations) and been familiar with all four of his essays on Levi and Améry. Susanne Vees-Gulani makes no reference to his highly relevant 'Zwischen Geschichte und Naturgeschichte' (Sebald, 1982b) (cf. Wilms, 2006.…”
Section: Booksmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The book became an instant bestseller. That same year, the English translation of an essay by the German expatriate writer Winfried Sebald, which had appeared in book form in Germany in 1999, and in an earlier version in a literary journal (Sebald, 1982), was published in the New Yorker (Sebald, 2002). Sebald claimed that German writers -with very few exceptions -had failed to adequately address the trauma of the Allied air raids.…”
Section: Halberstadt 8 April 2006 (Ii)mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Opening the fi nal section of the Companion, dedicated to haunting, trauma, and memory, Wilfried Wilms investigates the Allied bombing of German cities at the end of the Second World War, pointing out a shift in Sebald's position from an article written in 1982 22 and the lectures and essays collected in On the Natural History of Destruction (1999). Wilms relates the "taboo" of Holocaust representation, with which he prefaces his article, to Sebald's assertions of a willful amnesia on the side of the Germans after the Second World War, a "self-imposed censor of undesirable German memories" (181).…”
Section: IImentioning
confidence: 99%