{"product_id":"the-rings-of-saturn-w-g-sebald","title":"The Rings Of Saturn (W. G. Sebald)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEncountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW G Sebald (Author) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eW. 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Emigrants\u003c\/i\u003e which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, \u003ci\u003eThe Rings of Saturn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAusterlitz\u003c\/i\u003e. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hulse and Simon Rae (Translators) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Hulse teaches poetry at Warwick University and regularly does reading tours in the UK, the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and India.  He is based in Warwick. Simon Rae is a playwright , novelist and broadcaster (he presented Radio 4's 'Poetry Please' for several years). He lives in Banbury, Oxfordshire. Both Michael Hulse and Simon Rae are published poets and winners of the National Poetry Competition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 320 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65888576799069,"sku":"K078784018","price":13.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/7878401800001A.jpg?v=1789089023","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-rings-of-saturn-w-g-sebald","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}