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Originally Posted by CRussel
That's probably why I abandoned Hardy in my teens and never wanted to go back! Honestly, I'm not much of a fan of tragedy, except the Shakespearean versions.
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Same here. Tess of the D’Urbervilles was enough for me. I’d place Albert Camus on the same list.
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Originally Posted by issybird
Aha! Another rather odd aspect. I think we can take the book as occurring in roughly 1950. But Malamud, deliberately I think, gives Tuesday, October 1, as the date of the deciding game, which places it out of time. The last Tuesday, October 1 was 1946, which is too early. The next Tuesday, October 1 was in 1957, after publication. But I digress.
My real point is that a scant five years after the war, it's as if it didn't happen.
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How interesting! The quality of timelessness definitely comes through.