The Rings of SaturnHarvill Press, 1998 - 296 Seiten W. G. Sebald's new book is a work of imaginative literature, the fictional record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, Sebald's home for the last 20 years. It is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. |
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... Browne wrote out of the fullness of his erudition , deploying a vast repertoire of quotations and the names of authorities who had gone before , creating complex metaphors and analogies , and con- structing labyrinthine sentences that ...
... Browne wrote out of the fullness of his erudition , deploying a vast repertoire of quotations and the names of authorities who had gone before , creating complex metaphors and analogies , and con- structing labyrinthine sentences that ...
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... Browne observes that the funeral pyres were built of sweet fuel , cypress , fir , yew , and other trees perpetually verdant as silent expressions of their surviving hopes . Browne also remarks that , contrary to general belief , it is ...
... Browne observes that the funeral pyres were built of sweet fuel , cypress , fir , yew , and other trees perpetually verdant as silent expressions of their surviving hopes . Browne also remarks that , contrary to general belief , it is ...
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... Browne just sixteen . In a letter written imme- diately after Browne's death , FitzGerald recalled how deeply moved he had been when , on the morning after he had conversed for a while with Browne on the steamer from Bristol , he met ...
... Browne just sixteen . In a letter written imme- diately after Browne's death , FitzGerald recalled how deeply moved he had been when , on the morning after he had conversed for a while with Browne on the steamer from Bristol , he met ...
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already amidst Aris Kindt Ashbury Bawdsey beach Beccles body Boulge Bredfield Browne Browne's building Casement century clouds coast Congo dark dead death deserted Ditchingham Ditchingham Hall dream Dunwich Dunwich Heath earth empty eyes fields fire fish FitzGerald garden Garden of Cyrus gaze German green grey hall hand head hour hundred Janine knew Konrad Korzeniowski land later light lived London looked Lowestoft Matadi Michael morning mulberry museum never night North Sea Norwich once Orford palace park perhaps reached recall remained RIVER ALDE seemed sericulture Shingle Street ships silk cultivation silkworms sitting Somerleyton Southwold stone stood strange Suffolk summer Swinburne Temple things Thomas Abrams Thomas Browne thought thousand Tlön took towers town travelled trees turn Vicomte W. G. Sebald walked walls window writing wrote yards