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Alan Bray
- Apr 14, 2022
- 5 min
Having Fun With Reading - Normal People
This week, let’s look more closely at the role of the narrator in Normal People. A definition, please. A person who narrates something,...
Alan Bray
- Apr 7, 2022
- 3 min
Mental Time Travel - Normal People
Normal People, I’m going to say, is a book of recollection. A story of two people, told from a future vantage point and ending in a way...
Alan Bray
- Mar 31, 2022
- 4 min
Free The Speech!
As we continue our exploration of Sally Rooney’s Normal People, let’s take a look at some structural issues. The story concerns two main...
Alan Bray
- Mar 24, 2022
- 4 min
Normal People
This week, a new story, my friends, Irish author Sally Rooney’s 2018 novel, Normal People. Normal People was a bestseller in the United...
Alan Bray
- Mar 17, 2022
- 4 min
Nocturnal Progression
Last week, due to constraints of space and time, we interrupted our discussion of Cellists, the last story in Nocturnes. Let’s continue...
Alan Bray
- Mar 10, 2022
- 5 min
The Fellas In The Band Observe A Flirty Actress
In Cellists, the fifth and final story in Nocturnes, we return to the city of Venice but with new characters. The complex narrative...
Alan Bray
- Mar 3, 2022
- 5 min
You Turkey
The fourth story in Nocturnes is entitled Nocturne and is the longest of the five contained therein. Does this have meaning? I don’t...
Alan Bray
- Feb 24, 2022
- 4 min
You Talkin' To Me?
In the third story of Nocturnes, Malvern Hills, we immediately come on a first-person narrator who is never named. “I’d spent the spring...