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The Rings of Saturn
W.G. Sebald
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Description for The Rings of Saturn
Paperback. A record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. Translator(s): Hulse, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages, 75. BIC Classification: 1DBKEA; 2ACG; FA; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 306.
‘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
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099448921
SKU
V9780099448921
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About W.G. Sebald
W.G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, Germany in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and the author of The Emigrants, which won a series of major awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. W.G. Sebald wrote in his native tongue, German, and worked closely with his translator, Michael Hulse, to translate his work into English. He died in December 2001. Michael Hulse has translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Jacob Wasserman's Caspar Hauser, as well as the contemporary German authors Luise Rinser, Botho Strauss and Elfriede Jelinek. He is also an award-winning poet. He lives in Amsterdam.
Reviews for The Rings of Saturn
A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideas. Framed around the narrator's long walks in East Anglia, Sebald shows how one man looks aslant at historical atrocity. 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
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
Sebald's exquisitely written philosophical tramp around East Anglia has you asking questions about truth, art and history at every turn of his mysterious path. What's never in doubt is the strength of Sebald's vision or the beauty of his prose
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Merges history, geography, memory and philosophy to create something more mood than story – nostalgic, melancholy and wondrous
Time Out
This spellbinding book changed for ever my idea of what a memoir could be
Laura Cumming, author of ON CHAPEL SANDS
Week
Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century
The Times
Teju Cole
Guardian
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
Sebald's exquisitely written philosophical tramp around East Anglia has you asking questions about truth, art and history at every turn of his mysterious path. What's never in doubt is the strength of Sebald's vision or the beauty of his prose
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
Merges history, geography, memory and philosophy to create something more mood than story – nostalgic, melancholy and wondrous
Time Out
This spellbinding book changed for ever my idea of what a memoir could be
Laura Cumming, author of ON CHAPEL SANDS
Week
Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st Century
The Times