An edition of The rings of Saturn (1998)

The rings of Saturn

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An edition of The rings of Saturn (1998)

The rings of Saturn

  • 4.2 (5 ratings) ·
  • 35 Want to read
  • 1 Currently reading
  • 12 Have read

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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Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Pages
296

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The rings of Saturn
1999, New Directions
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1998, New Directions
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

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

The Physical Object

Pagination
296 p. :
Number of pages
296

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL699789M
Internet Archive
ringsofsaturn00seba
ISBN 10
0811213781
LCCN
97047578
OCLC/WorldCat
38132607
Library Thing
28135
Goodreads
859890

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