tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post8174142684315630295..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: And strange moods are born within me and the blood rises to my head - loving the twigs, kissing the grass, flinging the shoes - Pan is oddAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-23852688595347448792014-10-08T09:41:06.243-05:002014-10-08T09:41:06.243-05:00Ha ha ha, yes! Yes.Ha ha ha, yes! Yes.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-2470964674044605082014-10-08T09:21:15.552-05:002014-10-08T09:21:15.552-05:00Spoiler alerts are particularly important when wri...Spoiler alerts are particularly important when writing about Pan. Not to warn others about them beforehand would be as counterproductive as shooting yourself on the foot, so to speak.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-48375389753665627232014-10-08T08:05:21.643-05:002014-10-08T08:05:21.643-05:00Roger, yes, I think you are right. In fact (aside...Roger, yes, I think you are right. In fact (aside from the one explicit fantasy I mention), I take everything the narrator recounts as "true." It is the way he writes about them that makes them sometimes seem unreal. The narrator's subjectivity transforms whatever parts of the objective world he feeds into it, and at times I am disoriented - how far does the subjectivity go here?<br /><br />Your distinction between these Hamsun narrators and the great Nabokov narrators is quite good.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-24380118648350509452014-10-08T03:05:59.150-05:002014-10-08T03:05:59.150-05:00"The novel is ... obviously self-serving so a..."The novel is ... obviously self-serving so anything the narrator writes is open to question from a number of angles."<br />I haven't read it yet, though I hope to catch up with you, but Hamsun is a writer where I wonder if he knows that his narrators are unreliable or if he himself takes them at face value. Perhaps an unconsciously (to the author) unreliable narrator is more convincingly unreliable than a consciously reliable one. The problem with Humbert Humbert is whether a man so intelligent and self-aware could be both so self-revealing and so ignorant of himself. Hamsun's characters don't give that problem.Roger Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11012987757094423896noreply@blogger.com