The Rings of Saturn
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Shortlisted for the 1998 Los Angeles Times Book Award in Fiction: "Stunning and strange . . . Sebald has done what every writer dreams of doing. . . . The book is like a dream you want to last forever. . . . It glows with the radiance and resilience of the human spirit."Roberta Silman The New York Times Book Review The Rings of Saturn with its curious archive of photographs records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics. Rembrandts "Anatomy Lesson" the natural history of the herring Borges a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem Sir Thomas Brownes skull recession-hit seaside towns Joseph Conrad the once-thriving silk industry of Norwich Swinburne the dowager Empress Tzu Hsi and the massive bombings of WWII. Mesmerized by the mutability of all things the narrator catalogs the transmigration of whole worlds: "On every new thing there lies already the shadow of annihilation."
