An edition of Die Ringe des Saturn: eine englische Wallfahrt (1995)

The rings of Saturn

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An edition of Die Ringe des Saturn: eine englische Wallfahrt (1995)

The rings of Saturn

by , , , , and

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  • 1 Currently reading

A fictional account of a walking tour through England's East Anglia, Sebald's home for more than twenty years, The Rings of Saturn explores Britain's pastoral and imperial past. Its ten strange and beautiful chapters, with their curious archive of photographs, consider dreams and reality. As the narrator walks, a company of ghosts keeps him company - Thomas Browne, Swinburne, Chateaubriand, Joseph Conrad, Borges - conductors between the past and present.

The narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and hears of the furious coastal battles of two world wars. He tells of far-off China and the introduction of the silk industry to Norwich. He walks to the now forsaken harbor where Conrad first set foot on English soil and visits the site of the once-great city of Dunwich, now sunk in the sea, where schools of herring swim.

As the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds, the reader is mesmerized by change and oblivion, survival and memories.

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New Directions
Language
English
Pages
296

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Subjects

Description and travel, Travel, Fiction, German Authors, Biography, History, Modern Civilization, Geschichte, Kultur, Wandern, Authors, german, Germany, biography, England, description and travel, Écrivains allemands, Biographies, Descriptions et voyages, Literary, Journeys, Germanic literature

People

Winfried Georg Sebald (1944-), Winfried Georg Sebald (1944-2001)

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England, Modern Civilization

Times

20th century

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Los anillos de Saturno: Una peregrinación inglesa
Oct 31, 2008, Anagrama, Editorial Anagrama
paperback
Cover of: Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt. Die Andere Bibliothek - Erfolgsausgabe
Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt. Die Andere Bibliothek - Erfolgsausgabe
June 1, 2001, Eichborn
Hardcover in German
Cover of: The rings of Saturn
The rings of Saturn
1998, New Directions
in English
Cover of: Die Ringe des Saturn
Die Ringe des Saturn: eine englische Wallfahrt
1997, Fischer Taschenbuch
in German

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Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
833/.914
Library of Congress
PT2681.E18 R56 1998, PT2681.E18R56 1998

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Pagination
296 p. :
Number of pages
296

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL699789M
ISBN 10
0811213781
LCCN
97047578
OCLC/WorldCat
38132607
LibraryThing
28135
Goodreads
859890

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Work ID
OL46611W

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