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A review by casparb
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
5.0
Watched Grant Gee's film (Patience) about this before reading which I'd recommend. Wonderful 4.5. A brilliant piece a novel that honeycombs quincuncially. Am I reeling? For herring?
I want to map it out - put it in an MRI machine perhaps. I love the brain that unfolded this. I think it works because of the morbidity Sebald operates with. Fish, silk, Bergen-Belsen. It is more than under the skin.
This is really one where I'll take time to put thoughts together. The encounter, pure, here. Love the temporality! The images! Their sequencing. I feel I'll enjoy this more the better I know it.
I want to map it out - put it in an MRI machine perhaps. I love the brain that unfolded this. I think it works because of the morbidity Sebald operates with. Fish, silk, Bergen-Belsen. It is more than under the skin.
This is really one where I'll take time to put thoughts together. The encounter, pure, here. Love the temporality! The images! Their sequencing. I feel I'll enjoy this more the better I know it.