![]() Many of the characters are haunted by doubt or uncertainty, whether it's moral doubt, or self-doubt, or the doubt that comes with a realization of the limits of how fully known we can ever be to one another, of how often we must live unknown and unknowing. What does Nadia, or Arthur, or Aaron feel themselves to be guilty of? What role does judgment play in the novel?Ĥ. The novel is composed of intimate and emotional monologues that have the tone of a confession. How do the characters respond to loss, destruction, and change?ģ. A sense of loss-of a child, a parent, a lover, a home, youth, an illusion, and so many other things-suffuses the novel. What does this inheritance represent for each? Is it a burden?Ģ. ![]() ![]() The large and imposing desk in the novel is passed from life to life, moving through space and time to link the characters in the novel to each other and to the past. ![]()
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