MDMD 1: Snow-Balls

[Mark Wright AIA]

Howdy
And it sounds absolutely wonderful read aloud. The entire book ought to
be read slowly, at a speaker's pace. Its music is rich and resonant,
and ravishing. 

All those old-timery capital letters sprinkled about take work to
ignore unless you slow way down.  Perhaps that is part of their
function in the text? They are both a typographical costume and speed
bumps.

Mark


--- Thomas Eckhardt <thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
snip

> Echoes, associations. On the other hand - and more importantly, in my
> opinion - the opening of the novel is a marvellous example of
> realistic
> writing, drawing us into its long lost world with an immense amount
> of
> visual, aural and olfactory impressions, with historical detail
> concerning the family's history and the larger events, and of course
> by
> means of its language.  


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