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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... earth that numbered as many souls as were annihilated in sea - battles of this kind . The agony that was endured and the enormity of the havoc wrought defeat our powers of comprehension , just as we cannot conceive the vastness of the ...
... earth that numbered as many souls as were annihilated in sea - battles of this kind . The agony that was endured and the enormity of the havoc wrought defeat our powers of comprehension , just as we cannot conceive the vastness of the ...
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... earth . Only in this way could he see it all together : the vast cloudscape that occupies two thirds of the picture ; the town , which is little more than a fraying of the horizon , except for St Bavo's cathedral , which towers above ...
... earth . Only in this way could he see it all together : the vast cloudscape that occupies two thirds of the picture ; the town , which is little more than a fraying of the horizon , except for St Bavo's cathedral , which towers above ...
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... earth to have remained hitherto untouched by the blessings of civilization . The aim , said King Leopold , was to break through the darkness in which whole peoples still dwelt , and to mount a crusade in order to bring this glorious ...
... earth to have remained hitherto untouched by the blessings of civilization . The aim , said King Leopold , was to break through the darkness in which whole peoples still dwelt , and to mount a crusade in order to bring this glorious ...
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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