![]() The trip through Suffolk occurs in August, but it has that weirdly German quality of feeling perpetually grey and wintery. ![]() But the hospital stay hangs over the book like a menace, the knowledge that the story we are following tends towards entropy. The window of his room, the two pleasant nurses. The narrator is telling us the story a year out from the hospital stay, and we never learn much about it, really. ![]() The breakdown happened to a narrator who is very much like Sebald, but this is not important. The Rings of Saturn, to the extent that it has a through-line at all, is about a walking trip through Suffolk, which preceded a mental breakdown that required a hospital stay. ![]() It feels apt that the day I finished re-reading The Rings of Saturn was the day a new hard lockdown was announced. ![]()
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