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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... leaves dry on the branch penetrated their shallow sleep , people imagined , for a fraction of a second in which wishful thinking was stronger than what they knew to be the case , that it had started to rain . Though the capital and its ...
... leaves dry on the branch penetrated their shallow sleep , people imagined , for a fraction of a second in which wishful thinking was stronger than what they knew to be the case , that it had started to rain . Though the capital and its ...
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... leaves would sway in the breeze as if the scourge which had obliterated its entire kind would pass it by without a trace ; and I also recall that a bare fortnight later all these apparently invincible leaves were brown and curled up ...
... leaves would sway in the breeze as if the scourge which had obliterated its entire kind would pass it by without a trace ; and I also recall that a bare fortnight later all these apparently invincible leaves were brown and curled up ...
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... leaves from hard old wood , and by mid - summer they were dropping masses of rock- hard , deformed acorns that were covered with a sticky substance . The beech trees , which until then had remained in good shape , were affected by ...
... leaves from hard old wood , and by mid - summer they were dropping masses of rock- hard , deformed acorns that were covered with a sticky substance . The beech trees , which until then had remained in good shape , were affected by ...
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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