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The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn

Author(s): Sebald, W. G.

Language(s): English

Pages: 296

Year: 2019

Publisher: Vintage Classics (Penguin Random House UK)

City: London

URL: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1118667/the-rings-of-saturn/9781784875350.h…

ISBN: 9781784875350

Abstract: Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia becomes the great, constellated story of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. A rich meditation on the past via a melancholy trip along the Suffolk coast, The Rings of Saturn is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

Category: Fiction

Contributor(s): Plum, Leon Lukas

Location: Arnhem

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