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Abstract Following German writer W.G. Sebald’s famous debate on aerial warfare and literature during World War II, as represented in his work On the Natural History of Destruction, the article aims to study Gert Ledig’s Payback, a novel rediscovered after Sebald’s debate and successfully republished in 1999, while negatively reviewed on its first publication in 1956. Ledig’s novel will be analyzed in relation to the themes of Sebald’s debate on aerial warfare and literature and in relation to its value as a document of the description of an aerial attack on a German town. This value is particularly questioned by Sebald who doubts the possibility of a direct representation of wartime atrocities through language, as in Ledig’s novel.

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