The Rings of Saturn

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Despite his decades away from Germany, Sebald said of his home country (in an interview with Eleanor Wachtel): ‘I know it’s my country… Although of course I come from the edges, as it were, the southern edges of Germany…. I hardly knew Germany… one didn’t travel much in the mid-sixties.’ Sebald knew Freiburg and had been to Munich once or twice. Frankfurt, Hanover and Berlin were, he said, ‘totally alien’ to him. ‘So in a sense,’ he added Images of ash point to the world that was lost after Auschwitz, while silk evokes the world that made Auschwitz possible. ‘Silk’ is one of Sebald’s symbols of ‘progress’ and ‘destruction’; it’s linked to the tyranny of mutilating labour (recall the image of the silk weaver strapped into his machine) and melancholy (recall the hunched silk-weaver’s susceptibility to depression). Ash, on the other hand, invokes an ambiguous world existing beneath, and perhaps beyond destruction. S

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Jo Catling; Richard Hibbitt, eds. (2011). Saturn's Moons, W.G.Sebald - A Handbook. Translated by Hamburger, Michael. Legenda. p.659. ISBN 978-1-906540-0-29.

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Bigsby, Christopher. Remembering and Imagining the Holocaust: The Chain of Memory. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006. urn:lcp:ringsofsaturn00seba:epub:13bd06d4-5a90-42c0-b458-45507e1d22a0 Extramarc Brown University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier ringsofsaturn00seba Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7gq7sz01 Isbn 0811213781 Lccn 97047578 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition W. G. Sebald was born in Wertach im Allgäu, in the Bavarian Alps, in 1944. He studied German language and literature in Freiburg, Switzerland and Manchester. In 1966 he took up a position as an assistant lecturer at the University of Manchester, settling permanently in England in 1970. He was professor of Modern German Literature at the University of East Anglia, and is the author of The Emigrants which won the Berlin Literature Prize, the Literatur Nord Prize and the Johannes Bobrowski Medal, The Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. W. G. Sebald died in 2001.

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Since it was first published in Germany twenty years ago, The Rings of Saturn has spawned an enduring wave of critical and creative responses, culminating in Grant Gee’s 2012 documentary Patience (After Sebald) – an eccentric homage. Rings is not a novel in the standard form; it is part travelogue, part memoir, part essay-meditation and part fiction. It’s a riff and an improvisation on found and obsessed-over material, and a close reading of place, territories, time, texts and history. Walter Benjamin’s notion of the ‘chronicler’—an inventive storyteller who produces speculative and instructive versions of unverifiable histories—applies well to Sebald’s writing. The narrator is a version of Sebald but not quite the same as the flesh-and-blood author, and I suspect, in a paranoid way, that even the photograph of Sebald posing casually in front of a Lebanese cedar, near the end of the chronicle, is in some way distorted—perhaps reversed, as in a mirror image.Philippa Comber, 'Autorbiographie'. In: Claudia Öhlschläger, Michael Niehaus (eds.), W.G. Sebald-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2017, pp. 5–9, p. 9. 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. Sebald, W. G. (1973). The Revival of myth: a study of Alfred Döblin's novels. British Library EThOS (Ph.D) . Retrieved 4 March 2016.