The Rings of Saturn - Sebald, W.G.
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âEUR¿Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st CenturyâEUR(TM) The Times What begins as the record of W. G. SebaldâEUR(TM)s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human. âEUR¿A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideasâEUR¿ Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a…mehr

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âEUR¿Sebald is the Joyce of the 21st CenturyâEUR(TM) The Times What begins as the record of W. G. SebaldâEUR(TM)s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present. From Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, to fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms, the result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human. âEUR¿A novel of ideas with a difference: it is nothing but ideasâEUR¿ Formally dexterous, fearlessly written (why shouldn't an essay be a novel?), and unremittingly arcane; by the end I was in tearsâEUR(TM) Teju Cole, Guardian
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W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.