Other authors: Paul Sayer

This is part of my Other Authors series, where I share dissociated voices written by a number of different novelists.

Today I’m sharing my thoughts on The Comforts of Madness by Paul Sayer.

In The Comforts of Madness, the protagonist Peter is in a fixed catatonic state – and it’s something he explains that he chose: “I could not move, had no strength, no desire to. Nothing was left in me at all [but I] allowed myself one last act, one last indulgence before the years that followed: I smiled....