78 - W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn
Books of Some Substance
English - October 10, 2021 17:37 - 54 minutes - 51.6 MB - ★★★★ - 61 ratingsBooks Arts Society & Culture Philosophy bulgakov bellow book books classics fiction hesse hurston kawabata lewis Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: 77 - Anthony Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time (Guest: Aatif Rashid)
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.