[HN Gopher] The secret trauma that inspired German literary gian...
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       The secret trauma that inspired German literary giant WG Sebald
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2021-08-02 20:17 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | moab wrote:
       | Thanks for sharing this. The only book by Sebald I have read is
       | "The Rings of Saturn", a wonderful book about a walking trip
       | through the south-east of England. Sebald mixes personal
       | reminiscence with the history of the largely forgotten villages
       | he walks through, places that saw their best times in the early
       | 1900s and have experienced a steady and inevitable decay in the
       | century since. I know I was aware of the Nazi past of his family
       | when reading this, but it doesn't come across strongly, at least
       | in this book. In any case it's incredibly moving and I'm now
       | looking forward to reading it again (perhaps after Austerlitz,
       | which I haven't read).
        
         | gumby wrote:
         | I recommend "On the Natural History of Destruction"
        
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