The Rings of Saturn
What metaphors are used in The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald?
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The Hospital Window is one of the first visions and objects in the book, it is important because it at once symbolizes and is a metaphor of the authors very real incarceration in a psychiatric hospital following a nervous breakdown and also his internal incarceration in a world devoid of meaning and full of desolation.