The Rings of Saturn
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I tell this story only partly to show how obnoxious I was as a youth. More importantly I tell it because only weeks after first visiting Southwold – and by sheer coincidence – I read WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. A transcendent piece of psychogeographic writing, it’s a book built from observations made on the very same Suffolk terrain, during a walk down the coast from Lowestoft to Ditchingham. Along the way, Sebald spend two days in Southwold, a spell that prompts a mental journey into the history of colonial exploitation in the Congo and the links between Joseph Conrad and English knight, Irish nationalist and, ultimately, British traitor, Roger Casement. Sebald detaches us from reality, even as he feeds increasing amounts of earthy and apparently true material into the book. He makes us feel like there is far more in the Suffolk landscape than we could ever have imagined – and also that he’s imagining plenty of it. Or rather, the imaginary version of him is imagining it. Zaslove, Jerry. "W. G. Sebald and Exilic Memory: His Photographic Images of the Cosmogony of Exile and Restitution". Journal of the Interdisciplinary Crossroads, Vol. 3 (No. 1) (April 2006). From this house of mythic stasis the narrator of The Rings of Saturn moves on, traveling next to see an old acquaintance of his called Thomas Abrams, a farmer, a pastor, and, we learn, an avid amateur modeler. Abrams, the narrator recalls, had begun his hobbying career by making replicas of ships and other vessels. But by the time Sebald’s novel takes place he has spent the past twenty years working obsessively on one model, a model of a single building that, when you consider its maker’s résumé, is a most likely subject. For all that, the book's tenor is muted. Sebald is strangely removed from the ruin he obsessively envisions and combs over:
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Philippa Comber, 'Autorbiographie'. In: Claudia Öhlschläger, Michael Niehaus (eds.), W.G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 5–9, p. 9. Long, J. J. and Anne Whitehead (eds.). W. G. Sebald: A Critical Companion. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006.Bewes, Timothy. "What is a Literary Landscape? Immanence and the Ethics of Form". differences, vol. 16, no. 1 (Spring 2005), 63–102. Discusses the relation to landscape in the work of Sebald and Flannery O'Connor. Night, the astonishing, the stranger to all that is human, over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on. It was as though I stood at the topmost point of the earth, where the glittering winter sky is forever unchanging; as though the heath were rigid with frost, and adders, vipers and lizards of transparent ice lay slumbering in their hollows in the” Sebald, W. G. (1973). The Revival of myth: a study of Alfred Döblin's novels. British Library EThOS (Ph.D) . Retrieved 4 March 2016. While the narrator initially informs us, ‘I have seldom felt so carefree as I did then, walking for hours in the day through the thinly populated countryside, which stretches inland from the coast,’ this is not the impression we have of the narrator’s trek while reading The Rings of Saturn. What is published is far from carefree. Sebald writes:
Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn: Memories of the Holocaust W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn: Memories of the Holocaust
McCulloh, Mark Richard (2003). Understanding W. G. Sebald. University of South Carolina Press. p.66. ISBN 1-57003-506-7 . Retrieved 23 December 2007. You should read this book,’ Engelhard says, after slurping down some tea. Then he takes the volume from my hands and waves it in the air.The Rings of Saturn. London: Harvill. ( Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt) English ed. 1998 Breuer, Theo, "Einer der Besten. W. G. Sebald (1944–2001)" in T.B., Kiesel & Kastanie. Von neuen Gedichten und Geschichten, Edition YE 2008. The effect of this quintessentially Sebaldian passage is like that of a dream in which a lecturer is speaking drily about sericulture but also, somehow, about Auschwitz. That place and what it has come to represent is a vast and blank presence at the periphery—and yet somehow at the center—of narrative vision in Sebald’s work. He was born in Bavaria in 1944, and so grew up in the immediate aftermath of the war. His father, he learned much later, had served in the Army and had been among the troops who invaded Poland in 1939. Like so many German men of his generation, Sebald’s father refused to speak about his war experiences, and this reticence, with that of post-war Germany as a whole, is what impels Sebald’s narratives of shame and historical occlusion. The difficulty of representing the past accurately—even if that past is itself a dream, a reconstruction of a reconstruction, a palimpsest of a palimpsest—is one known to people other than writers, of course. I was a fervent model-maker in my early teenage years, often devoting all of my after-school time to making intricate reproductions of buildings from antiquity. Of these, the Parthenon was the object of an almost obsessive interest. After making my first model of it for a class project when I was about twelve, using cardboard toilet paper rolls to stand in for the original’s elegantly fluted Doric columns, I embarked on creating a proper scale model, three feet wide by six feet long, the ambitiousness of which now strikes me as almost absurd and the construction of which was never completed, although it absorbed the next five years of my life. During that period my skills improved. I studied dozens of books and, eventually, created elaborate rubber molds from which I could cast the forty-six columns of the peristyle and other architectural elements. I reproduced as meticulously as I was able the bas-reliefs of the frieze, which I worked in Plasticine on inch-high strips of cardboard, and the great chryselephantine statue of Athena, which in my three-feet-to-an-inch scale rendering was thirteen inches high, cast in plaster, and adorned with real gold leaf.
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Night, the astonishing, the stranger to all that is human, over the mountain-tops mournful and gleaming draws on. It was as though I stood at the topmost point of the earth, where the glittering winter sky is forever unchanging; as though the heath were rigid with frost, and adders, vipers and lizards of transparent ice lay slumbering in their hollows in the sand.” Sebald studied German and English literature first at the University of Freiburg and then at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, where he received a degree in 1965. [5] He was a Lector at the University of Manchester from 1966 to 1969. He returned to St. Gallen in Switzerland for a year hoping to work as a teacher but could not settle. Sebald married his Austrian-born wife, Ute, in 1967. In 1970 he became a lecturer at the University of East Anglia (UEA). There, he completed his PhD in 1973 with a dissertation entitled The Revival of Myth: A Study of Alfred Döblin's Novels. [6] [7] Sebald acquired habilitation from the University of Hamburg in 1986. [8] In 1987, he was appointed to a chair of European literature at UEA. In 1989 he became the founding director of the British Centre for Literary Translation. He lived at Wymondham and Poringland while at UEA. From Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate , by Daniel Mendelsohn, published in September by University of Virginia Press. McCulloh, Mark (2003). Understanding W.G. Sebald. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 57–83. ISBN 978-1-57003-506-7. Netting the Butterfly Man: The Significance of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants" by Adrian Curtin and Maxim D. Shrayer, in Religion and the Arts, vol. 9, nos. 3–4, pp. 258–283, 1 November 2005
PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Rings_of_Saturn_-_Winfried_Georg_Sebald.pdf, The_Rings_of_Saturn_-_Winfried_Georg_Sebald.epub The rings of Saturn consist of ice crystals and probably meteorite particles describing circular orbits around the planet's equator. In all likelihood these are fragments of a former moon that was too close to the planet and was destroyed by its tidal effect. [5] The Rings of Saturn is work of oblique mourning, encountering its object again and again in distorted forms. All of Sebald’s hobbyists and scholars, all the images of desolation and depopulation, are presented in a melancholic register, crisscrossing through space and history yet framed by the narrative’s beginning and end: the premature death of two colleagues, as ‘Sebald’ begins to write in 1994, and the Holocaust that marked him at birth, folding over and rearing its head as the narrator completes his chronicle on April 13, 1995. We have no evidence to tell us from which angle Thomas Browne watched the dissection, if, as I believe, he was among the onlookers in the anatomy theatre in Amsterdam, or indeed what he might have seen there. Perhaps, as Browne says in a later note about the great fog that shrouded large parts of England and Holland on the 27th of November 1674, it was the white mist that rises from within a body opened presently after death, and which during our lifetime, so he adds, clouds our brain when asleep and dreaming.
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