The Rings of Saturn Hardcover - 1998
by Winfried Georg Sebald; Michael Hulse (Translator)
A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, author W.G. Sebald's home for more than 20 years, THE RINGS OF SATURN explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past. On the pilgrimage a company of ghosts, like conductors between the past and present, keep us company. As Sebald catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds, the mesmerized reader is led along, viewing with him survival and memories, change and oblivion.
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A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, Sebald's home for more than twenty years, The Rings of Saturn explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past. Its ten strange and beautiful chapters, with their curious archive of photographs, consider dreams and reality. As the narrator walks, a company of ghosts keeps him company - Thomas Browne, Swinburne, Chateaubriand, Joseph Conrad, Borges - conductors between the past and present. The narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and hears of the furious coastal battles of two world wars. He tells of far-off China and the introduction of the silk industry to Norwich. He walks to the now forsaken harbor where Conrad first set foot on English soil and visits the site of the once-great city of Dunwich, now sunk in the sea, where schools of herring swim. As the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds, the reader is mesmerized by change and oblivion, survival and memories.
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- Title The Rings of Saturn
- Author Winfried Georg Sebald; Michael Hulse (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American E
- Pages 306
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation, New York
- Date 1998-06-17
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780811213783 / 0811213781
- Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
- Dimensions 8.31 x 5.67 x 1.08 in (21.11 x 14.40 x 2.74 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects England - Description and travel, Authors, German - 20th century
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97047578
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 06/21/2002, Page 78
- Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/1998, Page 522
- New York Times, 07/26/1998, Page 5
- NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 01/01/1999, Page 72
- Publishers Weekly, 04/06/1998, Page 60
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