![]() ![]() I would not suggest reading this book straight-through, as I did, because that is akin to synthesising an entire module’s worth of information into a couple of sittings. But I suppose that is mostly my fault for approaching it as a critic and not as a student. ![]() Even as a Saunders fan, I often found the book to be quite an arduous undertaking. However, there is the question of who exactly this book is for? To describe it as a niche publication is something of an understatement. And, for some of us, having a writer like Saunders analyse The Nose is something far beyond our wildest dreams. I was not familiar with any of the stories that Saunders dissects, apart from Gogol’s The Nose. However, like the best lecturers, his analysis makes you almost love the story and understand exactly why Turgenev wrote it that way. ![]() The madness of King George continues when we analyse Turgenev’s The Singers, a longwinded and arduous story that he loves to take apart purely because it is longwinded and arduous. ![]()
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