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
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. W.G.
Sebald's The Emigrants (New Directions, 1996) was hailed by Susan
Sontag as an "astonishing masterpiece perfect while being unlike
any book one has ever read." It was "one of the great books of the
last few years," noted Michael Ondaatje, who now acclaims The Rings
of Saturn "an even more inventive work than its predecessor, The
Emigrants."
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