The Rings of Saturn

Description

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 which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne’s skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson,” the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan Sontag as an “astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read.” It was “one of the great books of the last few years,” noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings of Saturn “an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The Emigrants.”
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: W. G. Sebald,Michael Hulse (Translator)
Published: 11/08/2016
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780811226158
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 7.90″ L x 5.30″ W

About the Author
Sebald, W. G.: – W. G. Sebald was born in Germany in 1944 and died in 2001. He is the author of The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, Vertigo, Austerlitz, After Nature, On the Natural History of Destruction, Unrecounted and Campo Santo.Hulse, Michael: – Michael Hulse is an English translator, critic, and poet. Hulse has translated more than sixty books from the German.