It's been a while since I read the book "The Rings of Saturn" by the German-English author W.G. Sebald. Wikipedia writes:
The Rings of Saturn. An English Pilgrimage[1] is a prose work by the German-British author W. G. Sebald from 1995. The theme is a 6-day walk in August 1992 through a region on the east coast of England, which is connected in various ways with historical events and biographical developments not only in England. One year after the journey, the first-person narrator begins to complete his notes and to bring together the research conducted before and after the journey. The result is a travelogue which, while also following tourist, above all historical and biographical contexts that link the march landscape of Suffolk with "calamities" of world history[2] on almost every continent on earth.
The rings of Saturn connect the visible with the almost invisible, with the repressed, forgotten and under the weight of the present. This work, together with Sebald's novel Austerlitz, which pursues a similar aim, is one of the main works[3] of the author, who died in 2001. In them, the literary figure of the journey and the research connected with it became the "generative principle"[4].
Here is the link to the shortened English version of Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rings_of_SaturnI want to share it because it is one of the most beautiful and impressive books I have read. One gets between reading and daydreaming.
