The Rings of Saturn
Ranked #9 in Walking, Ranked #52 in German — see more rankings.
The Rings of Saturn — with its curious archive of photographs — records a walking tour along the east coast of England. A few of the things which cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics, Sir Thomas Browne's skull, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, recession-hit seaside towns, wooded hills, Joseph Conrad, Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson," the natural history of the herring, the massive bombings of WWII, the dowager empress Tzu Hsi, and the silk industry in Norwich. less
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Nicholas Shakespeare Of all those liberated by Chatwin’s trampling of fence-posts, none stands higher than W. G. Sebald. (Source)
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen Sebald is interesting because he published all of his books with photographs in them, and this one is interesting because it’s kind a Wordsworthian walking trip. (Source)
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