A look at the texts in W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn, including Thomas Browne’s Hydrotophia or Urne Buriall, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and François-René de Chateaubriand’s Mémoires d’Outre-Tombe.
an abandoned chest of roistering literature for the drunk and rampant reader.
drunken library 