Trauma and Guilt: Literature of Wartime Bombing in Germany. By Susanne Vees-Gulani. Berlin and New York: de Gruyter. 2003. vii+217 pp. 78 [euro]. ISBN 3-11-017808-7.
Susanne Vees-Gulani's study is the first in English to explore German literary responses to the Allied bombing war. The author focuses on works by Hans Erich Nossack, Wolfgang Borchert, Gert Ledig, Alexander Kluge, Walter Kempowski, Dieter Forte, and--last but not least--W. G. Sebald, whose 1997 Zurich lectures, ...