5/21/2023 0 Comments The Rings of Saturn by W.G. SebaldFirst, this is just a rough list providing the full tally of allusions and references would take up as much space as the chapter itself, and it’s far better just to enjoy Michael Hulse’s wonderfully smooth translation. The exhumation of Browne and the afterlife of his mortal remains. The church of St Peter Mancroft in Norwich. Surgeon and medical historian Anthony Batty Shaw. The death of Romance languages lecturer, Janine Dakyns, and her interest in 19th-century French novels.Īfrica, the Mediterranean, the Iberian peninsula, the Tuileries gardens, a suburb of Rouen, the Sahara. Parkinson’s walking holidays, and his death. Michael Parkinson, a UEA academic who studied Charles Ramuz. Here’s a rough list of the different topics WG Sebald touches on during the first 10 pages of The Rings of Saturn:Ī walk in Suffolk, undertaken by Sebald himself.Ī superstition about ailments that assail you “under the sign of the Dog Star”.
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