The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

ISBN 10: 0099448920 / ISBN 13: 9780099448921

Published by Random House UK Ltd Nov 2002, 2002

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Neuware -'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The TimesWhat begins as the record of W. G. Sebald's own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.'A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas. Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel ), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tears' Teju Cole, Guardian 296 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Rings of Saturn
• Publisher: Random House UK Ltd Nov 2002
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099448920
• ISBN 13: 9780099448921
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 199W x 130H x 25D millimeters 199 millimeters width by 130 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 229 grams

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Synopsis

The Rings of Saturn follows the triumph of Seybold's highly acclaimed American debut, The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996). A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, Sebald's home for more than twenty years