There has been a terribly interesting, for me at least, discussion going on in the comments at Wuthering Expectations about Dostoevsky’s narrator in The Brothers Karamazov and his weakness compared with the other characters: “The non-omniscient omniscient narrator has no more understanding of anyone else than does, for example, the reader. The art of [...]
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Christopher Tietjens, the Yorkshire youngest son who takes center stage in Some Do Not, the first volume of the Parade’s End tetralogy, is a man outside his own time. His Toryism is out of step with the politics of the day and his sense of honor out of step with its mores. For Tietjens, [...] A couple weeks ago, I wrote about how The Part About the Crimes was easier to read because of its form, and was surprised to get pushback on that idea. Perhaps I should have said that the form makes it deceptively easy to read; as Steve Brassawe notes, the just-the-facts approach to the crimes [...] Spring has brought some lovely weekend weather but I have been largely shut up here digging into the first weekend of my three very fat April group reads. The Part About the Crimes is now behind me in 2666, and while the end of that section was totally in line with my expectations it [...] Love’s Shadow is the first novel in Ada Leverson’s “Little Ottleys” trilogy. It it a classic comedy of manners, with the sedate and self-sufficient Edith Ottley and her vain, pathetic hypochondriac husband Bruce forming the backbone of a group of acquaintances that will chase after each other until nicely wrapping up the package with [...] |
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