Name: The Rings of Saturn, Hardcover/W. G. Sebald
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Price: 156.99 RON
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Contributor(s): Author: W. G. Sebald Translator: Michael Hulse 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." Review citations Publishers Weekly - pg. 60 - 04/06/1998 Kirkus Reviews / Best Of The Best/Highly Recommended - pg. 522 - 04/15/1998 Kirkus Reviews / Exceptional Presentation - pg. 522 - 04/15/1998 Kirkus Reviews / Book Of Special Distinction - pg. 522 - 04/15/1998 Kirkus Reviews / Top 15 Book Of The Year - pg. 522 - 04/15/1998 Kirkus Reviews / Highly Recommended - pg. 522 - 04/15/1998 New York Times - pg. 5 - 07/26/1998 NY Times Notable Bks of Year - pg. 72 - 01/01/1999 Entertainment Weekly - pg. 78 - 06/21/2002