The Rings of SaturnNew Directions Publishing, 08.11.2016 - 304 Seiten "The book is like a dream you want to last forever" (Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review), now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund A masterwork of W. G. Sebald, now with a gorgeous new cover by the famed designer Peter Mendelsund The Rings of Saturn—with its curious archive of photographs—records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants." |
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... that they always had a posthumous quality to them. He wrote—as was often remarked—like a ghost. He was one of the most innovative writers of the late twentieth century, and yet part of this originality derived from the.
... that they always had a posthumous quality to them. He wrote—as was often remarked—like a ghost. He was one of the most innovative writers of the late twentieth century, and yet part of this originality derived from the.
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W. G. Sebald. century, and yet part of this originality derived from the way his prose felt exhumed from the nineteenth.” —Geoff Dyer “A writer of almost unclassifiable originality, but whose voice we recognize as indispensable and ...
W. G. Sebald. century, and yet part of this originality derived from the way his prose felt exhumed from the nineteenth.” —Geoff Dyer “A writer of almost unclassifiable originality, but whose voice we recognize as indispensable and ...
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... century French novel that had about it a certain private quality, wholly free of intellectual vanity and was guided by a fascination for obscure detail rather than by the self-evident. Gustave Flaubert was for her by far the finest of ...
... century French novel that had about it a certain private quality, wholly free of intellectual vanity and was guided by a fascination for obscure detail rather than by the self-evident. Gustave Flaubert was for her by far the finest of ...
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... century and had left a number of writings that defy all comparison. An entry in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica had told me that Browne's skull was kept in the museum of the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. Unequivocal ...
... century and had left a number of writings that defy all comparison. An entry in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica had told me that Browne's skull was kept in the museum of the Norfolk & Norwich Hospital. Unequivocal ...
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... century, Browne wrote out of the fullness of his erudition, deploying a vast repertoire of quotations and the names of authorities who had gone before, creating complex metaphors and analogies, and constructing labyrinthine sentences ...
... century, Browne wrote out of the fullness of his erudition, deploying a vast repertoire of quotations and the names of authorities who had gone before, creating complex metaphors and analogies, and constructing labyrinthine sentences ...
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already amidst Aris Kindt Ashbury Bawdsey beach body Boulge Bredfield Browne Browne’s building Casement century clouds coast Congo dark dead death deserted Ditchingham Ditchingham Hall dream Dunwich earth empty entire everything eyes fields fire fish FitzGerald garden Garden of Cyrus gaze German green grey hall hand head hour hundred Janine kind knew Konrad Korzeniowski labourers land later light lived looked Lowestoft Matadi Michael morning mulberry night North Sea Norwich once one’s Orford palace park perhaps reached recall remained seemed sericulture Shingle Street silk cultivation silkworms sitting snow-white Somerleyton Southwold standing stone stood strange Suffolk summer Swinburne Taiping rebellion 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