W. G. Sebald: The Rings of Saturn, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Einer geht zu Fuß durch die Grafschaft Suffolk, eine spärlich besiedelte Gegend an der englischen Ostküste, und dort findet er, in den Heidelandschaften und abgelegten Küstenorten, die ganze Welt wieder. Überall stößt er auf Spuren vergangener Herrlichkeit und Schande. Den geringfügigen Rest am Wegrand bringt er zum Sprechen. Jeder Stein kündet von märchenhaften und unheimlichen Geschichten.

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W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allg Germany 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, and settled permanently in England in 1970. He was Professor of European Literature at the University of East Anglia, and the author of The Emigrants, which won a series of major awards, including the Berlin Literature Prize, the Heinrich B ll Prize, the Heinrich Heine Prize and the Joseph Breitbach Prize; The Rings of Saturn, and Vertigo. W. G. Sebald wrote in his native tongue, German, and worked closely with his translator, Michael Hulse, to translate his work into English. He died in December 2001.
Michael Hulse has translated Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Jacob Wasserman's Caspar Hauser, as well as the contemporary German authors Luise Rinser, Botho Strauss and Elfriede Jelinek. He is also an award-winning poet. He lives in Amsterdam.