As I finished The Following Story for the second time, I remembered that Dr. Sexson wanted us to start considering our paper topic. And since I love The Following Story and must agree with Doug and Dr. Sexson that it is, for me at least, the best thing we have read this semester in class, I will focus my paper around this work.
I was thinking about taking several of the themes that emerge in The Following Story, that I would most like to write about, and talk about them in the work and relate them to how we have come to understand the themes from class.
The themes that interest me most in The Following Story are the 20 minute lifetime, world as myth and dream, dolce domum and eternal recurrence. I hope to focus on these topics and tie into them the perceptions of time and the power of memory/déjà vu, since obviously this is an obsessive topic for me this year!
I am intrigued by Nooteboom and want to read more of his work in the future. I appreciate his interest in and rather obvious connection to Nabokov’s Transparent Things. This is just a rough rant for what I want to focus on in my paper, and a jumping off point for beginning to write soon I hope.
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