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The rings of Saturn
Winfried Georg Sebald and Michael Hulse
1998-2002
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The Rings of Saturn records a journey on foot that Sebald made along the coast of East Anglia, his home for more than twenty years. It is also an exploration of England's pastoral and imperial past. As he walks, Sebald gathers a company of ghosts about him Sir Thomas Browne, Swinburne, Chateaubriand, Joseph Conrad, Sir Roger Casement and others who provide links between the past and the present and who sometimes appear more vivid presences to Sebald than the living. He ponders the human and natural worlds, the founders of great estates and their present owners, fishing fleets and naval battles, dreams and reality, life and mortality. Sebald considers all he encounters with a fresh eye and an open mind, and the result is a compelling blend of fiction, autobiography and history as strange and beautiful as the rings of Saturn, created from fragments of shattered worlds.
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