@CDR Thanks! I can't find anything in the online archives for the US magazine called Life on either of those two articles. As @shoover said in the answer, there might have been some Indian periodical named "Life"? I have no idea
@ClaraDiazSanchez I'd say it is to foreground the status of fiction as fiction. So it's a metafictional move. Thematically it makes sense for Torres' novel. The novel is about recovering lost histories, and part of his point is to question the hard boundaries we draw between fiction and history. Without having read Kettu, I can't say what specific role the device plays in The Midwife, of course.
In general I think this is a somewhat overused narrative device now, but it might play a specific role well in Kattu's novel.
well I mean, I could write a general answer about the narrative technique and give examples from other novels ... but it would make sense for someone who has read Kettu to answer, I think
There is at least one Finn, we have determined, yes? The person who edited @CDR's answer?
For example, in A Streetcar named Desire Blanche and Stella's family's plantation 'Belle Reve' figures as an important space within the text, but isn't rendered directly in it - it is 'off the page', referenced but unseen. Is this rendering paratextual? Or is there a better/correct theoretical wo...
She has a fine face—originally of a character that would be rather called very pretty than handsome, but improved into classicality by the acquired expression of her fashionable state. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Does "pretty" mean more feminine here? Or does it mean she is pretty but not at...
Hmm - I didn't see any pending flags, so either someone handled it already or there's something funky going on. Investigation will have to wait, though...
Though of course Lambie continues to make comments that I continue to flag ... the reason I asked a moderator to speak to her is that she persists in this pattern of making disparaging comments and then exacerbating the issue when called out for them.
In Im Westen nichts Neues, Remarque uses the phrases "fĂĽnf Tage Dicken" and "fĂĽnf Tage Kahn." Can anyone explain those phrases?
