- Hungry
- Jul 14, 2006
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Oh poo poo, I read this when I was about 15 years old and it was an extremely bizarre experience which I didn't really process at the time. May as well give it a re-read and see what it was actually about.
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- Hungry
- Jul 14, 2006
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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.
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Sep 13, 2018 20:15
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- Hungry
- Jul 14, 2006
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There's another very intensely British thing going on in the opening parts of the story, after Nick reaches Greece, which again I had little idea of when I first read the novel. The British image of going to the European continent is bound up with ideas of personal freedom from the more stifling socially constricted standards of Britain - despite most of Europe being little different. Except, you know, when he gets there the Greek school is a little parcel of British style dropped into his illusion of the perfect untouched Greek countryside.
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