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Today, many critics call W. G. Sebald one of the most prominent and talented German-language novelists of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His novel The Rings of Saturn. One English Pilgrimage, first published in 1995, is created in the typical manner of the author, which combines fiction with thoughtful historical, cultural and philosophical essays, creating a unique, extremely poetic story about the richness of the cultural landscapes of Europe and the world, which are intertwined with thousands of threads in the fate of individuals, regions and entire nations.

The outer, plot outline of the novel is created by the fictional journey of the main protagonist through the East Anglian county of Suffolk, which in some broad strokes recreates the history of this region, but, as always with Zebald, this story appears to the reader not as an abstract, impersonal history of great narratives and significant dates, but as a set of local, personal, «banal» stories of individuals, houses, places, works of art, and eras.

But above all, Zebald's novel is a philosophical parable about the complex dialectic of the relationship between space, time and human memory, as well as about the ability of space to preserve traces of the past, which serve as a kind of signpost for a person and help him or her to humanise space and understand his or her world and the world of other people.