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With Cabezon the reader roams Madrid's narrow streets and the back alleys where chamber pots are emptied, enters an apothecary's shop where the contents of every vial are itemized, and loiters in the city squares-always with an ear to the edicts pronounced by the town criers...
Cabezon is a complex narrator who describes what he sees with microscopic precision, but who generally withholds his own feelings. Aridjis employs a stilted language of stylized historical resonances, slipping only on occasion into the passionate lyricism the reader expects of one of Mexico's foremost poets...
...Gilmartin, a witty entertainment editor at a Toronto daily newspaper is as bewildered at his murder, in the opening paragraph, as the reader. Gil discovers his wife in bed with her lover-the Sniffer, a drama critic at the same newspaper. In a "fury, fed...by sexual excitement," the Sniffer deals a fatal blow...
...narrator breaks the omniscient system to protect Tess from direct involvement in sins for which the reader will immediately condemn her in an absolute moral sense...
Mentioning reader-response was my wimpy attempt to subvert having to make categorical statements about what the author was trying to do. If I learned anything about theory as an English concentrator, I know not to assign any importance to authorial intent...