Sunday 3 December 2017

The Crying Lot of 49

Post in Progress

What can I say about this majestic novel?


Chapter 2
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The first time I read this chapter, I liked it, but I could never remember its full breadth and implications. I always thought that Metzger was trying to seduce Oedipa, and coincidentally a movie of which he himself played in was airing - how wrong, and badly did I read it - it was many years ago.


Oedipa after same revelations that are always just out of her grasp