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zalopunk's review against another edition
4.0
Pucha no tengo mucho que decir de este libro, lo encontré medio anecdótico para pasar el rato.
Pero es entretenido y alguna reflexión te saca en momentos de divagación.
Recomiendo tenerlo en mente si no se sabe que leer.
Pero es entretenido y alguna reflexión te saca en momentos de divagación.
Recomiendo tenerlo en mente si no se sabe que leer.
dayoldtea's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death and War
dylan_loves_classics's review against another edition
4.0
These essays were thought provoking and often revelatory thanks to Sebald's masterful style and analysis. Still, I think I need to read the literature he was criticizing to get the full impact of this text.
scrapespaghetti's review against another edition
3.0
deliberate cultural(collective) amnesia.
The aura of forbidden around any concerns with the real scenes of horror during the catastrophe.
Not surprising to see a boy in the immediate postwar years examining photographs of corpses lying in the streets in a way usually reserved for pornography.
Acknowledging inevitability that his detailed recounts may facilitate voyeurism.
The aura of forbidden around any concerns with the real scenes of horror during the catastrophe.
Not surprising to see a boy in the immediate postwar years examining photographs of corpses lying in the streets in a way usually reserved for pornography.
Acknowledging inevitability that his detailed recounts may facilitate voyeurism.
solecego's review against another edition
5.0
"That those who have loosed these horrors upon mankind will now in their homes and persons feel the shattering strokes of just retribution" :(
fehla's review against another edition
4.0
It's interesting to see Sebald's literary style applied to a historical essay. In this book, Sebald offers a very sharp analysis on Germany's recent history (and, as in all of his work, on the construction of a national, collective, memory). And it's also very interesting to notice how connected all of his works are, and how, in the end, all of his books are one, in a certain way.
P.S.: Another interesting book on the same subject is Andreas Huyssen's analysis on what he called 'urban palimpsests': http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414194.Present_Pasts
P.S.: Another interesting book on the same subject is Andreas Huyssen's analysis on what he called 'urban palimpsests': http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/414194.Present_Pasts
sambailey's review against another edition
4.0
I have no background knowledge on the literature Sebald is discussing, but he remains an amazing essayist.