The Rings of Saturn

The Rings of Saturn

Infobox Book |
name = The Rings of Saturn
title_orig = "Die Ringe des Saturn. Eine englische Wallfahrt"


image_caption =
author = W. G. Sebald
country = Germany
language = German
genre = Novel
publisher = Vito von Eichborn Verlag (German edition)
The Harvill Press (English edition)
pub_date = 1995
english_pub_date = 1998
media_type = Print
pages = 296 pp
isbn = ISBN 978-0-8112-1378-3

"The Rings of Saturn" ( _de. Die Ringe des Saturn) (1999) is a novel W. G. Sebald and published in English by New Directions Publishers.

The second novel of W. G. Sebald to be translated into English, "The Rings of Saturn" is an account of the narrator's [Sebald himself?] walking tour of southeastern England. In addition to describing the places he sees and people he encounters (including noted translator Michael Hamburger), the narrator also 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.

It is an elegiac, thoughtful book; a rumination on time, place and how they interact.


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