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The
Rings of Saturn
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ISBN: 1860466095 (UK); 0811214133 (USA) |
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The Emigrants
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The Rings of Saturn starts
as a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft
to Bungay, Sebald`s own story becomes the conductor for evocations of
people and cultural past and present: of Chateabriand, Thomas Browne and
Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is a book
unlike any other contempory literature, an intricately patterned and endlessy
thought-provoking meditation on the transcience of all things human. W.G.
Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgau, in the Bavarian Alps. After studying
in Freiburg and Switzerland, he took up a position at the University of
Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He is professor of
Modern German Literature at the University of East Angia, and is the author
of two other works of fiction, The Emigrants (Harvill, 1996), nominated
for the 1998 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and Vertigo
(Harvill, 1999).
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