BRIDGING THE SCIENCE-HUMANITIES DIVIDE: W.G.SEBALD’S THE RINGS OF SATURN
BRIDGING THE SCIENCE-HUMANITIES DIVIDE: W.G.SEBALD’S THE RINGS OF SATURN

Summary/Abstract: A multi-layered hybrid novel, W. G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn is simultaneously a journey through space and time, on the coastal side of Suffolk and back through the history of its modernity and development. Discussing the beginnings of science and meandering though the rise of modern scientific ideology, the novel can be read as an attempt to bridge the gap between the sciences and the humanities by weaving a labyrinthine net of meanings. Scientific discourse is deconstructed and revealed to be just another piece of fiction. The intimate narrative connections between art and science point to a common origin, obscured later by early modern scientific discourse, whose purpose was to define science as the ideal domain of objectivity and rationality.

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