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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... strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Measured, solemn, sardonic, hypnotic.” —Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “Sublime.” —Cynthia Ozick, The New Republic “Few writers have traveled as quickly from obscurity to the sort of ...
... strange and inscrutable gift.”—Slate “Measured, solemn, sardonic, hypnotic.” —Joshua Cohen, The New York Times Book Review “Sublime.” —Cynthia Ozick, The New Republic “Few writers have traveled as quickly from obscurity to the sort of ...
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... Strange – A great herd of swine – The reduplication of man – Orbis Tertius The Battle of Sole Bay – Nightfall – Station Road in The Hague – Mauritshuis – Scheveningen – The tomb of St Sebolt–Schiphol airport – The invisibility of man ...
... Strange – A great herd of swine – The reduplication of man – Orbis Tertius The Battle of Sole Bay – Nightfall – Station Road in The Hague – Mauritshuis – Scheveningen – The tomb of St Sebolt–Schiphol airport – The invisibility of man ...
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... strange reason, was draped with black netting, and as dusk fell the wish became so strong that, contriving to slip over the edge of the bed to the floor, half on my belly and half sideways, and then to reach the wall on all fours, I ...
... strange reason, was draped with black netting, and as dusk fell the wish became so strong that, contriving to slip over the edge of the bed to the floor, half on my belly and half sideways, and then to reach the wall on all fours, I ...
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... strange request, but I even had the impression that some of those I asked thought of me as an eccentric crank. Yet it is well known that in the period when public health and hygiene were being reformed and hospitals established, many of ...
... strange request, but I even had the impression that some of those I asked thought of me as an eccentric crank. Yet it is well known that in the period when public health and hygiene were being reformed and hospitals established, many of ...
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... strange bassoon-like sound, unique in the whole of Nature; and in the Pseudodoxia Epidemica, in which he dispels popular errors and legends, he deals with beings both real and imaginary, such as the chameleon, the salamander, the ...
... strange bassoon-like sound, unique in the whole of Nature; and in the Pseudodoxia Epidemica, in which he dispels popular errors and legends, he deals with beings both real and imaginary, such as the chameleon, the salamander, 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