78 - W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn

In this episode, friend of the podcast and book club Eric Heiman joins David and Nathan to talk about W.G. Sebald’s Rings of Saturn. The three get into the melancholic depiction of entropy eating away so much of human life, the sense of historical vertigo, and the (un)fictionality of the novel. Join the three as they discuss the style, form, and substance of Sebald’s enigmatic work. * * * W.G. Sebald is a German-English novelist known for his haunting, collage-like works of literature that blend fiction and non-fiction. Sebald’s work imaginatively explored themes of memory as they related to the Holocaust. His novels include Vertigo, The Emigrants, The Rings of Saturn, and Austerlitz (2001). * * * To learn more about the podcast on great modern and contemporary fiction and literature, check us out: * * * Tags: fiction, literature, Sebald, podcast, discussion, literary, commentary, analysis, interpretation