All entries for Sunday 02 July 2006

A truly exceptional work

Follow-up to Incomparable from Prole Art Threat

Title:

The Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Panther)

Author:

W. G. Sebald

ISBN:

1860466095

Rating:

As with Sebald's other works, this is just an absolutely first rate piece of writing – both particular and world–encompassing, it is both a real and intellectual travelogue. The Amazon review, see:

link

captures it rather neatly I think (although they do seem to have the wrong sleeve shot!) but it is a tough book to do justice to in a pithy review.

Anyway, do read it – the translation seems to me to be superb in capturing the magic of the ideas in a powerful, almost poetic, manner.

And then you can read his others too – it is so sad that there won't be any more. But what a body of work to leave!

: 02 Jul 2006 11:30 |  Tags: Book Review |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem