240712: second reading, first review. after decades of other work, of r-g and others, can see where this is when young me was particularly troubled by the extensive sado-masochism. implicit, embedded, involving. I certainly see details, themes, 'repetition' of oedipus in the dreamlike, contingent, confusing, multiple plots that I must revaluate for example the somewhat more coherent work of [book:The Spy Who Came In from the Cold|19494], [book:Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy|10073506], [book:Smiley's People|18999] or other espionage writers...
this is literature. Pomo, using tropes of genre, that deconstructs entire narrative/ theme / plot, that reveals there is something more going on then the usual deceit, betrayal, murder, of espionage novels, though perhaps the reader must reach the end of the book to understand the assertion. the extravagant, sexualised, mendacious nature of surviving child in horrors of war, are enough to question r-g's open display of his inner shit. then, following plot reversals, revelations, unreliable narrators, the girl is perhaps liberated from seen as lying, manipulative, amoral enabler of all the things that beset our unstable narrator and his constantly shifting viewpoint(s)...
or perhaps r-g is just being provocative to no purpose...
this will culminate in [book:A Sentimental Novel|20046120], which makes no concessions to accessible, relatively conventional, familiar and moral topography. but that comes several decades after this 'primary' attempt...
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