The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
W.G. Sebald (author), Michael Hulse (translator)- 10+ in stock
'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times
What 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
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099448921
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 258 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 20 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
A great, strange and moving work * James Wood, Guardian *
The finest book of long-distance mental travel that I've ever read * Jonathan Raban, Times Literary Supplement *
A desperate intensity of feeling is thrillingly counterpoised by the workings of a wonderfully learned and rigorous mind * Sunday Times *
Sebald is surely a major European author...he reaches the heights of epiphanic beauty only encountered normally in the likes of Proust * Independent on Sunday *
You may also be interested in...
“Wonderful book”
This is a book about nothing and everything. A great book which you have to stop every so often to take in and think about what you have just read. So simple and yet profound.
Please sign in to write a review
Sign In / Register
Sign In
Download the Waterstones App
Would you like to proceed to the App store to download the Waterstones App?
Click & Collect
Alternatively, for multiple items you may find it easier to add to basket, then pay online and collect in as little as 2 hours, subject to availability.