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Snow has appeared on the silver screen before, in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” where Brand played the hippie pop-singer who steals away the protagonist??s dream girl. However, despite marked similarities, the happy, free-wheeling Aldous Snow from “Sarah Marshall” is nowhere near as wild or self-destructive as the character in “Greek...
...narrator, it is simply a question of “lying low” and warding off the cruelty of lovers. Yet the protagonist and Clara, caught in their self-involved and unspectacular web of emotions, are too banal for Aciman’s trick to work, and the protagonist??s dense, slogging thoughts form a thicket of angst that paralyses the narrative. He despairingly thinks, “It occurred to me that rehearsing loss to dull the loss might bring about the very loss I was hoping to avert.” This constant...
After Carter reads a haunting passage from “Good Fortune” about her young protagonist??s theft from Africa by slave traders, the children at Banneker eagerly pepper her with questions...
...beyond the stills of history, we risk destabilising not only our ideas about the past but also our own place within that narrative. Despite this, W.G. Sebald’s “Austerlitz” stages such a staring contest, in which we—along with the protagonist??are challenged not to look away when those images dissolve, as devastating as the truth might turn...
...diptych, “The shadows of his youth,” a young man sits at the head of a table, looking solemnly past the viewer. Across the table and physically in the other panel is a blackened human skull donning a birthday party hat. The protagonist??s body, half masked by shadow, seems to refer to the title of the piece; despite the time that has passed, symbolized by the gap between the two panels of the diptych, the man cannot escape the “shadows of his youth.”The contrasting ability...