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Ccs posted:I’m through the early section in England and he’s met Conchis and they’ve talked a bit about war. It’s interesting and there’s this sense that things are going to get really weird but so far it’s been very subtle tricks and manipulation that the main character is mostly able to reason through. Looking forward to when it gets beyond his depth. Are you reading the revised edition? Fowles re-wrote some passages entirely, according to the forward in the revised edition I'm reading. I think I'm at the same point that you are, more or less. Urfe has gone 'scnorkeling' with Conchis. Really enjoying it.
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Hungry posted:Haha, okay, holy poo poo. I'd forgotten how much of this book is rooted in British class structure stuff and postwar British anxiety about its place in the world, especially the opening chapters before Greece, which is really the emotional setup for the novel. This might seem like a very difficult question to quantify any answers to, but I am curious how much that's all going to make sense to a modern (American?) audience. When I first read the book I must have been maybe 15-16 years old and I barely remembered much about Nick, but now he's just the absolute worst, and only half of that is his attitude toward women; the other part is all about class. British guy here just to confirm that 53 years after this book was published, the class system remains as rigid as it is displayed in the story.
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