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Ishiguro's Frank is not only reminiscent of Joyce's Frank but of Puccini's Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, from Madame Butterfly, an American naval officer who seduces and abandons the Japanese female protagonist of the opera.
— Jun 04, 2019 07:45AM
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...fraternize with Frank, who promises to remove her from her squalid and constraining circumstances. This twist of the plot clues the reader into one of the novel's primary intertexts, James Joyce's "Eveline" from Dubliners ...
OMG, how did I miss that? 😳
— Jun 03, 2019 08:45PM
OMG, how did I miss that? 😳
