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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... dead , and hath exequies , if not interments , he describes the funeral rites of numerous peoples before coming to the Christian religion , which buries the sinful body whole and thus extinguishes the fires once and for all . The almost ...
... dead , and hath exequies , if not interments , he describes the funeral rites of numerous peoples before coming to the Christian religion , which buries the sinful body whole and thus extinguishes the fires once and for all . The almost ...
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... dead herrings would lead to a formula for an organic source of light that had the capacity to regenerate itself . The failure of this eccentric undertaking , as I read some time ago in a history of artificial light , constituted no more ...
... dead herrings would lead to a formula for an organic source of light that had the capacity to regenerate itself . The failure of this eccentric undertaking , as I read some time ago in a history of artificial light , constituted no more ...
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... dead receded , and the more I imagined myself amidst the remains of our own civilization after its extinction in some future catastrophe . To me too , as for some latter - day stranger ignorant of the nature of our society wandering ...
... dead receded , and the more I imagined myself amidst the remains of our own civilization after its extinction in some future catastrophe . To me too , as for some latter - day stranger ignorant of the nature of our society wandering ...
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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