The Rings Of Saturn

"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the trans...

"The Rings of Saturn" begins as the record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia. From Lowestoft to Bungay, Sebald's own story becomes the conductor of evocations of people and cultures past and present: of Chateaubriand, Thomas Browne, Swinburne and Conrad, of fishing fleets, skulls and silkworms. The result is an intricately patterned and haunting book on the transience of all things human.

☀作者简介

[德]温弗里德·塞巴尔德

1944年生于德国，1970年起任教于英国东英吉利大学，2001年因车祸去世。作品风格独特，被公认为诺贝尔文学奖得主级别的作家。代表作有《奥斯特利茨》《移民》《土星之环》《眩晕》等。

☀译者简介

闵志荣，南京大学德语语言文学专业硕士和哥廷根大学跨文化日耳曼学专业硕士，现任江苏理工学院外国语学院德语系系主任，曾译有《文化学研究导论》《至古典主义德国文学中的中国》《德意志星球》等书。