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Parasitical Fiction, The Decline of British Swearing, and More

Parasitical Fiction, The Decline of British Swearing, and More

Oct 07, 2021
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W.G. Sebald’s fiction is parasitical. It preyed on the Jewish quest for an obliterated past to recover a usable German present... more »

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