The story of a pilgrimage on the coastal side of East Anglia, The Rings of Saturn offers the reader a spiritual travelogue through the convoluted history of our progress towards modernity. W.G. Sebald engages critically with issues of art, natural history, scientific progress, war and colonialism. Throughout the novel, the author discusses Thomas Browne (an English philosopher and physician...
Ordeal by Labyrinth can serve as an apt introduction to the work of Mircea Eliade. However, and despite its dialogical structure, its direct style and its diversity of topics, still, by its very nature, that is, as a “later” book of interviews, it cannot capture the diachronic dimension that is constitutive of Eliade’s work. In this, it inherently distorts perspectives, alters nuances, resolves...