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Text/Film

As I mentioned several posts back, I saw the film version of “The English Patient” before reading the book, an interesting phenomenon. It...

Tense Mood

Today, I want to write about how verb tenses are used in “The English Patient” to—(WTF? Sounds like a snooze-fest, pal. Maybe catch you...

Tell Me A Story

Last week, I identified two modes of narration in “The English Patient,” the (nearly) invisible narrator who tells the story of the four...

The English Patient

This week, a new novel, Michael Ondaatje’s “The English Patient.” In 1995 I was browsing in a bookstore in downtown Chicago and saw “The...

The Chastened Narrator

I have spoken at tedious length about the narrator’s voice in “Love in the Time of Cholera,” best beloved. (I’ve been wanting to write...

The Disappearance of Jeremiah de Saint-Amour

Before setting out once again on my discussion of “Love in the Time of Cholera,” I should probably issue, belatedly, a spoiler alert....

Holograms

Here’s that first line again—"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” The...

Who Is Speaking?

Here’s that first line again—"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” The...

Where and When

Here’s that first line again—"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.” The...

A New Project

I have decided to post more regularly on this site—it seems that The Fictional World of Alan Bray could contain fiction by other authors....