The Rings of Saturn So this one feels to me less of a novel than Austerlitz did, which already stretches my sense of what is a novel. We begin with Sebald (and normally I am not one to presume an unnamed narrator is the author, especially in novels, and in the case of Sophie’s Choice even when the narrator IS the novelist, by name, but here we even get a picture of Sebald in the text!), walking through the county of Suffolk, and his first stop along the […]
In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work.
Rings of Saturn by WG Sebald
The Emigrants by WG Sebald
A Place in the Country by WG Sebald