are several points in common with WG Sebald and Roberto Bolaño : both authors started to publish late, succeeded and died prematurely at the height of their careers: Bolaño in 2003 due to liver failure, Sebald apparently after suffering a heart attack while he was driving when he ran in 2001. From that year dates his novel Austerlitz , which critics have both highlighted as his best book. The opinion of the writer of these lines coincides with that assessment. In "The case Sebald" Rodrigo Fresán analyzed the possible reasons for the rapid canonization of German author.
But the novel that concerns us is Saturn's rings. The book's subtitle, "an English pilgrimage", puts us in the field of travel literature. In this case, it is a journey on foot through the county of Suffolk, east England. The protagonist is a transcript of the author (with the same name), which, together with that Sebald includes photographs of the places through which it passes, it increases the effect of realism. The journey begins, taking into account what the narrator tells us, "hoping to escape from the emptiness that was spreading me after completing an important job. " We also know from the start that the trip lasts just over a year, after which the star was admitted to the hospital in Norwich, where he began to write the text that makes up the book.
Saturn's rings is a hybrid of genres, ranging between autobiography and fiction, novels, travel books and essays. Sometimes I've wondered: is this really a novel? The low use of full stop density gives a text would Sebald essay in which boasts of scholarship and talks about various subjects that his prose is binding: from Lesson Anatomy of Dr. Tulp Rembrandt to the specifics of fishing for herring in the British coast of the crimes committed in the course of civilization in the Congo to the skull of Thomas Browne, Chateaubriand or Swinburne to favorable or unfavorable weather French for the development of sericulture, through stories of Chinese emperors or references to Roger Casement, present character as the protagonist of Celtic's dream, the latest novel by Nobel Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
The author's prose is of outstanding clarity, no problem in understanding. The style stands out from the plot. Sebald, who prided himself on not reading his contemporaries, has become in recent years in an author in the literary scene today. Among his followers have authors like Javier Marias . Particularly, I enjoyed with Austerlitz, but I admit that I've bored enough with this book. I did not take her finish the point.
But the novel that concerns us is Saturn's rings. The book's subtitle, "an English pilgrimage", puts us in the field of travel literature. In this case, it is a journey on foot through the county of Suffolk, east England. The protagonist is a transcript of the author (with the same name), which, together with that Sebald includes photographs of the places through which it passes, it increases the effect of realism. The journey begins, taking into account what the narrator tells us, "hoping to escape from the emptiness that was spreading me after completing an important job. " We also know from the start that the trip lasts just over a year, after which the star was admitted to the hospital in Norwich, where he began to write the text that makes up the book.
Saturn's rings is a hybrid of genres, ranging between autobiography and fiction, novels, travel books and essays. Sometimes I've wondered: is this really a novel? The low use of full stop density gives a text would Sebald essay in which boasts of scholarship and talks about various subjects that his prose is binding: from Lesson Anatomy of Dr. Tulp Rembrandt to the specifics of fishing for herring in the British coast of the crimes committed in the course of civilization in the Congo to the skull of Thomas Browne, Chateaubriand or Swinburne to favorable or unfavorable weather French for the development of sericulture, through stories of Chinese emperors or references to Roger Casement, present character as the protagonist of Celtic's dream, the latest novel by Nobel Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa.
The author's prose is of outstanding clarity, no problem in understanding. The style stands out from the plot. Sebald, who prided himself on not reading his contemporaries, has become in recent years in an author in the literary scene today. Among his followers have authors like Javier Marias . Particularly, I enjoyed with Austerlitz, but I admit that I've bored enough with this book. I did not take her finish the point.
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