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Confronting Collective Amnesia: A Profile of Winfried Georg Sebald |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / WRITERS AND WRITING |
| Author: Michael Thorpe |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 9/1/2003 |
| Size: 2,861 Words, 18,212 Characters |
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The remarkable German author Winfried Georg Sebald expatriated himself to England in 1966, to take up a position as lecturer in German literature at Manchester University. He was then twenty-two, having previously studied at Fribourg, Switzerland. Since he was only an infant when World War II ended, he had escaped a childhood and youth under Nazi indoctrination; there was no need to feel the burden of guilt or resentment for the Nazi years and their terrible consequences borne by many older Germans. Yet in childhood he witnessed the ubiquitous evidence of those consequences in the apocalyptic destruction of German cities, the main subject of his posthumous The Natural History of Destruction. (Sebald was killed in a traffic accident in December 2001.)
Originally, Sebald gave his Natural ...
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...ed away from his table and manacled and kicked and beaten does he know what this is. Only when, beside him, they are herding people together and knocking them down, loading them into wagons, does he know how this is."
"Now he is only standing in a vanished world. Here there is nothing more for him to do. For a while everything is utterly still."
"Then he knows that it has not ended yet."
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