TMoP, Chap 1, Page 1, Paragraph 1

[rusty]

Very nice photos . . . I think I'll celebrate this coming New Year's at
the Purga.

David Mugmon wrote:
> For what it's worth, I'll be reading and mostly lurking.  I may manage
> a pithy comment or 
> two if we're lucky.
>
> I've read some Dostoyevsky, alas, not Demons.  This will be my first
> Coetzee and I'm
> looking forward to it.
>
> Some nice, albeit modern, photos of St. Petersburg...
>
> http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2007/01/01/travel/web.0102trstpeteslide.php?index=3
>
> David M.
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Lawrence Bryan <lebryan at speakeasy.net
> <mailto:lebryan at speakeasy.net>> wrote:
>
>
>     Yes, although for me I thought of a film script. It does give a
>     certain strange uneasiness to the reader.
>
>     I guess there's no easy way to find out how many of us are reading.
>
>     Lawrence
>
>     On Sep 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Joe Allonby wrote:
>
>>     Reads like stage directions.
>>
>>     On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Richard Ryan
>>     <richardryannyc at yahoo.com <mailto:richardryannyc at yahoo.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         "October, 1869.  A droshky passes slowly down a street in the
>>         Haymarket district of St Petersburg.  Before a tall tenement
>>         building the driver reins in his horse."
>>
>>         One of the first things that might strike a reader inclined
>>         to notice and ponder such aspects of "The Master of
>>         Petersburg" is that the novel begins in the third person
>>         present, or more precisely, the third person limited present.
>>          Without being literally a stream of conscious novel, the
>>         effect of this viewpoint is to give the novel a certain
>>         psychological immediacy, an internalized quality.  At the
>>         same time, the authorial voice maintains at least the
>>         vestiges of realism and objectivity traditionally associated
>>         with the third person viewpoint.
>>
>>         The third person present is a rare enough point of view that
>>         Wikipedia's list of novels by viewpoint doesn't include any
>>         told in this person and tense (a deficiency which can now be
>>         corrected....)
>>
>>         http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_novels_by_point_of_view
>>
>>
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