According to Patrick Lennon's "In the Weaver's Web" (and Mark McCulloh's Understanding W. Themes in the book are those treated in Sebald's other books: time, memory, and identity. The book was published in English in 1998.Ĭombining the details of a walking tour with meditations prompted by places and people encountered on that tour, The Rings of Saturn was called "a hybrid of a book – fiction, travel, biography, myth, and memoir". In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters, including translator Michael Hamburger, Sebald discusses various episodes of history and literature, including the introduction of silkworm cultivation to Europe and the writings of Thomas Browne, which attach in some way to the larger text. Its first-person narrative arc is the account by a nameless narrator (who resembles the author in typical Sebaldian fashion ) on a walking tour of Suffolk.
The Rings of Saturn ( German: Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine englische Wallfahrt - An English Pilgrimage) is a 1995 novel by the German writer W.
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