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- ISBN
- 9780811214131
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN-10
0811214133
ISBN-13
9780811214131
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1074515
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rings of Saturn
Number of Pages
296 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, European / German, Europe / Great Britain, Historical
Publication Year
1999
Features
Reprint
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Travel, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
0.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-047578
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"The book is like a dream you want to last translation from the German seems little short of miraculous. The book is so natural and accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in such a modest and engaging way. As you read along, and as you become an active participant in the unfolding of this book." -- Roberta Silman (The New York Times Book Review) "This German who has lived in England for over thirty years is one of the most mysteriously sublime of contemporary writers. . . . And here, in , is a book more uncanny than ." -- James Woods (The New Republic) "Sebald has been writing what I give the unpromising name the documentary novel, in which subject matter becomes character. A future critic with considerably more time and space will find Anglia. Seen from above, his footsteps will describe, like the good detective he is, the outline of a body that has many times been ferried away, the body we call civilization. From these fading contours left upon the land, we Lilliputians are left to ponder the shape of what came yesterday, or centuries before. to such puzzling terrain, is indispensable." -- American Book Review "Sebald depicts a landscape that is fascinating and disturbing, a world whose minute differences from the actual is a bit of virtuoso reality. If I might be so bold as to sum up his work in one sentence, it is this: Time always wins, but offers as a consolation and booby prize, Memory. Thus the futility of existence is partially erased by both the grandeur and inability of our imaginations. We can dream. And somewhere in those dreams, reality is defeated." -- The Iconoclast "He is the most hypnotic and exhilarating author. Lyrical and genius. No one like him." -- Maira Kalman (Museums New York) "Like his much praised novel , this new work by Sebald is steeped in melancholy.... Erudition of this sort is too rare in American fiction, but the hypnotic appeal here has as much to do with Sebalds deft portrait of the subtle, complex relations between individual experience and the rich human firmament that gives it meaning as it does with his remarkable mastery of history." -- Kirkus Reviews "As he did so brilliantly in , German author Sebald once again blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction in traveling narrator is making his way through the county of Suffolk, England, and from there back in time." -- Publishers Weekly "[A]lways clear and present-always ringing true, not necessarily comfortable but not easily forgotten." -- Marilis Hornidge (Courier-Gazette [Maine]) "[A]n extraordinary palimpsest of nature, human, and literary history." -- Merle Rubin (The Wall Street Journal) "One of 'Five Best [of the year].' Historical fiction of the first rank." -- Rebecca Stott (The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires) "It is full of wonderfully rendered scenes…. Full of insight and beauty…. Tragic, yet beautiful." -- Trevor Berrett (The Mookse and the Gripes), As he did so brilliantly in The Emigrants, German author Sebald once again blurs the boundaries between fact and fiction in traveling narrator is making his way through the county of Suffolk, England, and from there back in time., Like his much praised novel The Emigrants, this new work by Sebald is steeped in melancholy.... Erudition of this sort is too rare in American fiction, but the hypnotic appeal here has as much to do with Sebalds deft portrait of the subtle, complex relations between individual experience and the rich human firmament that gives it meaning as it does with his remarkable mastery of history., This German who has lived in England for over thirty years is one of the most mysteriously sublime of contemporary writers. . . . And here, in The Rings of Saturn, is a book more uncanny than The Emigrants., [A]lways clear and present--always ringing true, not necessarily comfortable but not easily forgotten., The book is like a dream you want to last translation from the German seems little short of miraculous. The book is so natural and accessible, and yet so odd, that one is left enchanted and also curious about the author, who presents such a prodigious mass of material in such a modest and engaging way. As you read along, and as you become an active participant in the unfolding of this book., Sebald has been writing what I give the unpromising name the documentary novel, in which subject matter becomes character. A future critic with considerably more time and space will find Anglia. Seen from above, his footsteps will describe, like the good detective he is, the outline of a body that has many times been ferried away, the body we call civilization. From these fading contours left upon the land, we Lilliputians are left to ponder the shape of what came yesterday, or centuries before. to such puzzling terrain, is indispensable., It is full of wonderfully rendered scenes.... Full of insight and beauty.... Tragic, yet beautiful., Sebald depicts a landscape that is fascinating and disturbing, a world whose minute differences from the actual is a bit of virtuoso reality. If I might be so bold as to sum up his work in one sentence, it is this: Time always wins, but offers as a consolation and booby prize, Memory. Thus the futility of existence is partially erased by both the grandeur and inability of our imaginations. We can dream. And somewhere in those dreams, reality is defeated.
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Dewey Decimal
833/.914
Edition Description
Reprint
Synopsis
Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit."--Roberta Silman, The New York Times Book Review, The Rings of Saturn chronicles a tour across epochs as well as the East Anglian countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions, and links them to the natural history of the herring, and a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem., "Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia," as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn "is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and decay. . . . The Rings of Saturn is exhilaratingly, you might say hypnotically, readable. . . . It is hard to imagine a stranger or more compelling work." The Rings of Saturn - with its curious archive of photographs - chronicles a tour across epochs as well as countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions and links them to Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, the travels of Sir Thomas Browne's skull, and the massive bombings of WWII. Cataloging change, oblivion, and memories, he connects sugar fortunes, Joseph Conrad, and the horrors of colonizing the Belgian Congo. The narrator finds threads which run from an abandoned bridge over the River Blyth to the terrible dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and the silk industry in Norwich. "Sebald," as The New Yorker stated, "weaves his tale together with a complexity and historical sweep that easily encompasses both truth and fiction." The Emigrants (hailed by Susan Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece-perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read") was "one of the great books of the last few years," as Michael Ondaatje noted: "and now The Rings of Saturn is a similar and as strange a triumph.", Ostensibly a record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, as Robert McCrum in the London Observer noted, The Rings of Saturn is also a brilliantly allusive study of England's imperial past and the nature of decline and fall, of loss and decay. . . . The Rings of Saturn is exhilaratingly, you might say hypnotically, readable. . . . It is hard to imagine a stranger or more compelling work. The Rings of Saturn - with its curious archive of photographs - chronicles a tour across epochs as well as countryside. On his way, the narrator meets lonely eccentrics inhabiting tumble-down mansions and links them to Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson, the natural history of the herring, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, the travels of Sir Thomas Browne's skull, and the massive bombings of WWII. Cataloging change, oblivion, and memories, he connects sugar fortunes, Joseph Conrad, and the horrors of colonizing the Belgian Congo. The narrator finds threads which run from an abandoned bridge over the River Blyth to the terrible dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and the silk industry in Norwich. Sebald, as The New Yorker stated, weaves his tale together with a complexity and historical sweep that easily encompasses both truth and fiction. The Emigrants (hailed by Susan Sontag as an astonishing masterpiece-perfect while being unlike any book one has ever read) was one of the great books of the last few years, as Michael Ondaatje noted: and now The Rings of Saturn is a similar and as strange a triumph.
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- c***a (93)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGreat transaction. Three items were purchased together, and each one was accurately described. Fast shipping, and obvious care was taken to ensure that the items arrived unscathed. Very satisfied.
- 5***u (115)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseWonderful Haydn collection from the great Alfred Brendel- and wonderful seller as well. Item as described, well packaged, fairly priced, timely shipping. 5 big stars!