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Alan Bray
- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
Rage Against the Machine
Harry Haller’s purported journal begins with a description of his day—written in past tense, something we must return to later. He is, to...
Alan Bray
- Nov 18, 2021
- 4 min
Get Your Motor Running
This week, a new book, Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf, first published in 1927. I am using a Picador edition published in 1963 which...
Alan Bray
- Nov 11, 2021
- 5 min
Walkin' the Dog
An important idea is that reading a story changes the reader, that being with a story—and we should say, the implied author of the...
Alan Bray
- Nov 4, 2021
- 3 min
Time And The Hour Runs Through The Darkest Day
Last time, we were musing about what connects the sections in Casting Shadows, that there seems to be a pattern of the narrator...
Alan Bray
- Oct 28, 2021
- 5 min
Casting Shadows
This week, a new story, Jhumpa Lahiri’s Casting Shadows, a short story or novel excerpt, published in the February 15th 2021 issue of The...
Alan Bray
- Oct 21, 2021
- 4 min
Search For The Author - Implicated
This week, as we wrap up our reading of Three Horses, a little background on the concept of the implied author. (Whiny voice: Are you...
Alan Bray
- Oct 14, 2021
- 4 min
You Can Count On Me
The narration in Three Horses is written in first person. After all, the very first word is “I,” as in “I only read used books.” Is this...
Alan Bray
- Oct 7, 2021
- 5 min
Selim
Besides Laila, the other key character in Three Horses is Selim, a man whom the narrator befriends and helps, acts of kindness which have...