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This article will trace the “map-like” quality of W.G. Sebald’s novel  The Rings of Saturn , and will demonstrate the ways in which this characteristic of Sebald’s prose works can assist in illuminating the quiet echoes of historical traumas such as the Holocaust that permeate his oeuvre. Fundamentally, however, a normative understanding of mapping is inadequate to the complexities of Sebald’s meditations on history, memory, place, and destruction; accordingly, the article will complicate such understandings by presenting the novel as a kind of “fluid cartography.” The mutability inherent in the notion of fluid cartography is apt to Sebald’s writing, and can offer an enhanced understanding of the author’s methods of representing memory and the past, along with the ways in which such concerns become embedded in the landscapes depicted. This article will focus on aspects of Holocaust memory that are inserted in such a way, and which become connected – through the fluid cartographical reach of the text – to a broader history of both human and natural destruction.

W.G. Sebald’s The Rings of Saturn : Memories of the Holocaust in the Fluid Cartography of a “Natural History of Destruction”