Posted on Jun 4, 2004

Wilfried Wilms,
assistant professor of German, published an essay, “Taboo and Repression in
W.G. Sebald's On
the Natural History of Destruction.” This essay examines critically Sebald's provocative engagement with the traumatic
histories of World War II and its aftermath. The essay appeared in W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion, (eds. Anne Whitehead and Jonathan
Long, University of Edinburgh Press, UK, 2004) A paperback of this volume is being
prepared by a publishing house in the United States.