
The Rings of Saturn (Paperback)
W.G. Sebald (author), Michael Hulse (translator)- 10+ in stock
The Rings of Saturn begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, and an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.
'Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century' The Times
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099448921
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 277 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 24 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 *
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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.
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