![]() ![]() Rembrandt’s “Anatomy Lesson”, the natural history of the herring, Borges, a matchstick model of the Temple of Jerusalem, Sir Thomas Browne’s 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. A few of the things that cross the path and mind of its narrator (who both is and is not Sebald) are lonely eccentrics. The Rings of Saturn, with its curious archive of photographs, records a walking tour of the eastern coast of England. Nicole Krauss The Rings of Saturn Fiction In the end, I can only say that he practiced a kind of magic born out of almost supernatural sensitivity. I’ve read his books countless times trying to understand how he did it. Out of exquisitely attuned feeling for the past, Sebald fashioned an entirely new form of literature. ![]()
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