The County of Suffolk binds two eccentric novels together
Today, I’m going to review two books, because one of the books is so frequently mentioned in the other. I’ll start with W.G. Sebald’s THE RINGS OF SATURN. It is August 1992, when the protagonist (which the book cover blurb helpfully points out both is and is not Sebald) takes a dreary perambulation around the […]
Would you have been able to suppress a gasp of surprise when a total stranger opened your front door?
Imagine that you are loitering outside a front door in Kensington, a rather lovely corner of London, when a short man arrives with a bundle of dry cleaning on his arm. He fumbles for something, possibly a key, and then pauses. After a moment, he walks up to the front door and rings the bell. […]
