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Chapters just the right length for reading at a single sitting and for asking students to read before next week

The introduction written as a history of close reading is inspiring.

Good translation into very readable English. Enjoying the book and its concepts already, even in the introduction. Location 184 in Kindle ebook version.

Reading

As expected

Early creation of interest in a character as the narrator considers him from afar

Good

The intro is well worth reading carefully. It prepares you well for Bakhtin’s text and theory.

We are reading this in November 2024 in our WhatsApp public Community Group as I travel by train and ferry from England to Ouistreham in Normandy, France. Do join us if you can on WhatsApp

Some named streets in Paris to find

Just beginning to understand the plot, the why, as Aristotle called it. It seems to deal with the rise in power of the bourgeoisie in cities and states across what would become Italy. Told from the point of view of a landed aristo who feels the power being drained away.

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I keep discovering that this or that, which happened before, should be said. The chapters, thus, are added, not one after the other, but always pushing back the one that I first thought should be the first.

These maxims are charming in that they are the key to Heaven as well as to Hell.