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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... Park Hotel and listened to the stormy gusts buffeting the crowns of the trees . From afar came the rumble of thunder . Pallid sheet lightning streaked the horizon . At about one o'clock , when I heard the first drops rattling on the ...
... Park Hotel and listened to the stormy gusts buffeting the crowns of the trees . From afar came the rumble of thunder . Pallid sheet lightning streaked the horizon . At about one o'clock , when I heard the first drops rattling on the ...
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... park , utterly deserted , extended to the very edge of the world , where the minarets of Khorasan soared . It was not , however , the park of the FitzGerald estate at Boulge , but that of a country house at the foot of the Slieve Bloom ...
... park , utterly deserted , extended to the very edge of the world , where the minarets of Khorasan soared . It was not , however , the park of the FitzGerald estate at Boulge , but that of a country house at the foot of the Slieve Bloom ...
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... park were bent and streaming like aquatic plants in a deep current . White clouds raced across in the darkness , and again and again the sky was lit up by a terrible flickering which , I later discovered , was caused by power lines ...
... park were bent and streaming like aquatic plants in a deep current . White clouds raced across in the darkness , and again and again the sky was lit up by a terrible flickering which , I later discovered , was caused by power lines ...
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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