“Unstable little loops”: Time, Bodies, and the Memory of Criminalisation in Alan Hollinghurst’s The Swimming-Pool Library

The Swimming-Pool Library, Alan Hollinghurst’s first novel, presents a highly unstable temporality: the narrative of the summer of 1983 is constantly entangled with, if not haunted by, previous historical periods. Hence, despite the sense of stasis that emerges from the novel’s use of the motif of t