Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781784875350
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 256g
RRP: £8.99
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.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 06/06/2019
ISBN: 9781784875350
Length: 320 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 20mm x 129mm
Weight: 256g
RRP: £8.99
A great, strange and moving work
The finest book of long-distance mental travel that I've ever read
A desperate intensity of feeling is thrillingly counterpoised by the workings of a wonderfully learned and rigorous mind
Sebald is surely a major European author...he reaches the heights of epiphanic beauty only encountered normally in the likes of Proust
A highly original work...part memoir, part fiction, part meditative essay writing, and finally an essay for the dispossessed