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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... death ... beautiful and unsettling, elevated into an art of the uncanny—an art that was, in the end, Sebald's strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Measured, solemn, sardonic, hypnotic.” —Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review ...
... death ... beautiful and unsettling, elevated into an art of the uncanny—an art that was, in the end, Sebald's strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Measured, solemn, sardonic, hypnotic.” —Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review ...
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... Death and interment of Apollo Korzensiowski – Seaand love-life – A winter journey – The heart of darkness – The panorama of Waterloo – Casement, the slave economy and the Irish question – Casement tried and executed for treason The ...
... Death and interment of Apollo Korzensiowski – Seaand love-life – A winter journey – The heart of darkness – The panorama of Waterloo – Casement, the slave economy and the Irish question – Casement tried and executed for treason The ...
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... death affected no one more deeply than Janine Dakyns, who, like Michael, was a lecturer in Romance languages and unmarried too. Indeed, one might say that she was so unable to bear the loss of the ingenuous, almost childlike friendship ...
... death affected no one more deeply than Janine Dakyns, who, like Michael, was a lecturer in Romance languages and unmarried too. Indeed, one might say that she was so unable to bear the loss of the ingenuous, almost childlike friendship ...
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... death, a procedure then still part of the ordained punishment. That the anatomy lesson in Amsterdam was about more than a thorough knowledge of the inner organs of the human body is suggested by Rembrandt's representation of the ...
... death, a procedure then still part of the ordained punishment. That the anatomy lesson in Amsterdam was about more than a thorough knowledge of the inner organs of the human body is suggested by Rembrandt's representation of the ...
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... death, and which during our lifetime, so he adds, clouds our brain when asleep and dreaming. I still recall how my own consciousness was veiled by the same sort of fog as I lay in my hospital room once more after surgery late in the ...
... death, and which during our lifetime, so he adds, clouds our brain when asleep and dreaming. I still recall how my own consciousness was veiled by the same sort of fog as I lay in my hospital room once more after surgery late in the ...
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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