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"The Rings of Saturn" Author: [Germany] Winfried Sebald Original title: Die Ringe des Saturn
"The Rings of Saturn" Author: [Germany] Winfried Sebald Original title: Die Ringe des Saturn
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Introduction · · · · · ·
☀Introduction
Mourning the illusion of rising
Mourning the order that crumbled into dust
This is a funeral that has been held countless times.
We will eventually meet in the sinking
This book is another internationally renowned work by Sebald after The Emigrants, recording the narrator "I"'s hiking trip across the east coast of England and what he saw, thought and felt during the journey. He passed through old British manors, the homes of deceased writers, dilapidated seaside resorts, and abandoned islands, recalling and telling various strange stories, such as Thomas Brown's head, Rembrandt's anatomy class, the natural history of herrings, Conrad's trip to Africa, China's court train, the historical connection between sugar and art, the bombing of World War II, the model of the Jerusalem Temple, Norwich's sericulture, and so on.
This is a true literary journey. The events in this journey involve literature, art, social history, natural science and other fields. Collective and personal memories are intertwined, pictures and texts complement each other, and dreams and reality coexist. Readers are invited to enter this memory museum and observe survival and memory, change and forgetting with Sebald.
☀Media Recommendation
There is a moral weight and a weary wisdom to Sebald’s writing that transcends literature into the realm of the oracular.
His voice is an extraordinary presence in modern literature, and it may take another decade to fully appreciate the weight and subtlety of his words.
—The New Yorker
This book is like a dream you want to have forever.
Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. The Rings of Saturn shines with the brilliance and tenacity of the human heart.
——The New York Times Book Review
Sebald is that rare creature: an inimitable creator of extraordinary sentences that, like crystal, simultaneously refract and amplify their meaning.
——Booklist Magazine
About the Author · · · · · ·
☀About the Author
[German] Winfried Sebald
Born in Germany in 1944, he taught at the University of East Anglia in the UK from 1970 and died in a car accident in 2001. His works are unique in style and he is recognized as a writer of Nobel Prize in Literature level. His representative works include "Austerlitz", "The Immigrants", "The Rings of Saturn" and "Vertigo".
☀Translator Profile
Min Zhirong holds a master's degree in German language and literature from Nanjing University and a master's degree in intercultural Germanic studies from the University of Göttingen. He is currently the director of the German Department of the School of Foreign Languages at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology. He has translated books such as "Introduction to Cultural Studies", "China in Classical German Literature" and "The German Planet".
Table of contents · · · · · ·
2 Diesel Trains—Morton Peto's Palace—A Visitor at Somerleyton Hall—German Cities in Flames—The Decline of Lowestoft—German Apprentices in Amsterdam—Former Baths—Frederick Farrar and the Little Court of James II./28
3 Fishermen on the Beach - A Natural History of Herrings - George Wyndham Le Strange - A Large Group of Pigs - Operation Human Reproduction - The Third Planet / 52
The Battle of the Soleil Bay - Night Comes - Bahnhofstrasse in The Hague - Mauritshuis - Scheveningen - Tomb of Saint Sebaldus - Schiphol Airport - Human Invisibility - Sailors' Reading Room - Pictures of the First World War - Jasenovac Concentration Camp on the Sava River / 75
V. Conrad and Casement—The Little Boy Theodore—Exile to Vologda—Novofastov—Death and Funeral of Apollo Kozhenovsky—Life at Sea and Love Life—Winter Homecoming—Heart of Darkness—Panorama of Waterloo—Casement, the Slave Economy, and the Irish Question—Prosecution and Execution for Treason / 103
VI. The Bridge over the Blythe River—The Chinese Court Train—The Taiping Rebellion and the Opening of the Central Empire—The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace—The End of the Xianfeng Emperor—Cixi—The Secret of Power—The Fall of the City—Poor Algernon/138
Dunwich Heath—Middleton Moor—A Childhood in Berlin—Escape to England—Dreams, Selective Affinity, Fit—Two Special Stories—Through the Rainforest/168
8. Sugar Talks—Borch House—The Fitzgeralds—The Children's Room at Bradfield—Edward Fitzgerald's Literary Hours—A Magical Revolving Door—The Death of a Friend—The End of the Years—The Last Journey, Summer Scene, Tears of Happiness—A Game of Dominoes—Memories of Ireland—The Secret of the Civil War—The Fire, Poverty, and Decline—St. Catherine—Pheasant Mania and Business Ownership—Across the Wasteland—The Secret Weapon of Execution—In Another Country/193
IX. The Temple of Jerusalem—Charlotte Ives and Viscount Chateaubriand—Memories from the Grave—In Ditchingham Churchyard—The Hurricane of October 16, 1987 / 243
10. Thomas Browne's "The Closed Museum"—Silkworms—The Origin and Spread of Sericulture—The Silk Weavers of Norwich—The Mental Illness of the Weavers—Textile Patterns: Nature and Art—Sericulture in Germany—Extermination—Silk Mourning Clothes/273
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