Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot.
What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, The Rings of Saturn is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784875350
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 257 g
Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 19 mm
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
A highly original work...part memoir, part fiction, part meditative essay writing, and finally an essay for the dispossessed - Sunday Telegraph
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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