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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... night , when the incomparable glasshouses , borne on cast - iron pillars and braces and seemingly weightless in their filigree grace , shed their gleam- ing radiance on the dark . Countless Argand burners backed with silver - plated ...
... night , when the incomparable glasshouses , borne on cast - iron pillars and braces and seemingly weightless in their filigree grace , shed their gleam- ing radiance on the dark . Countless Argand burners backed with silver - plated ...
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... night never changes , and indeed may go back further than memory can reach . They say it is rare for any of the fishermen to establish contact with his neighbour , for , although they all look eastward and see both the dusk and the dawn ...
... night never changes , and indeed may go back further than memory can reach . They say it is rare for any of the fishermen to establish contact with his neighbour , for , although they all look eastward and see both the dusk and the dawn ...
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... night lasts far longer than day , if one compares an individual life , life as a whole , or time itself with the system . which , in each case , is above it . The night of time , wrote Thomas Browne in his treatise of 1658 , The Garden ...
... night lasts far longer than day , if one compares an individual life , life as a whole , or time itself with the system . which , in each case , is above it . The night of time , wrote Thomas Browne in his treatise of 1658 , The Garden ...
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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