Rings of Saturn

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

Av W. G. Sebald, W.G. Sebald, W G Sebald

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The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics. Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson", the natural history of the herring, Borges, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, recession-hit seaside towns, Joseph Conrad, the once-thriving silk industry of Norwich, Swinburne, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the massive bombings of WWII.Mesmerized by the mutability of all things, the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds: "On every new thing, there lies already the shadow of annihilation."

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Utgivningsdatum1998-06-17
Mått144 x 211 x 27 mm
Vikt513 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor306
FörlagNew Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN9780811213783
ÖversättareHulse, Michael

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"The book is like a dream you want to last translation from the German seems little short of miraculous. The book is so natural and accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in such a modest and engaging way. As you read along, and as you become an active participant in the unfolding of this book."