The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translator)

The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, Michael Hulse (Translator)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. 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

During the last two decades

and that's going well - but the rest of her working life isn't

and paragliders figure out new ways to risk their lives on the towering peaks of Mont Blanc

the group is forced to ask - would someone resort to murder

neither the overcast of Seattle nor the fog of San Francisco

which narrates the surreal tale of a young man as he roams around invisible to all

and found the remedy

and Welsh – as they make their way through the twentieth century

Then Freddie falls in with a crew who plan to rob the Hotel Theresa—the “Waldorf of Harlem”—and volunteers Ray’s services as the fence

It was 1987

its history

And even if the home he remembers is real