The first time I read this novel in some distant past I
enjoyed its plot and forgot all about it except the hazy outline of the
narrative. I someone asked me, have I read the celebrated novel I would say yes
indeed and would tell him yeah there was this inscrutable guy throwing lavish
parties from money he apparently earned from dubious operations. Then I noticed this novel freely available on
the net about two years back read it again.
This time I loved the language of the novel and admired the author’s
great perspective of looking at things absolutely unemotional way e.g. ‘I was
in the war, tried hard to die but couldn’t succeed’.
And recently when the
movie created so much buzz I read it again ….
This time the novel appeared to be inspired by movies …It seemed
like crisp, cleverly written screenplay. Then it occurred to me the novel was
written almost a century back so it is the other way round. Our great screenplays
of movies are inspired by this novel.
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