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Death in Venice
In Our Time: Culture
The Unfairness of Ashinba
There's for me a very memorable scene when Ashinba observes Taja on the beach and Taja is writing in the sand. One of the reasons that this novella is so disturbing, I mean powerful we're still reading it, still talking about it but so disturbing is because of this sort of manipulated narrative perspective. In terms of using antiquity as a kind of legitimization of what today we just see as a paedophilic attraction turning it into this notion of pedarasty. So here the narrator is basically forcing us as the reader to take on Ashimash's feelings his physical sense of feverish building up pulsating feelings in the scene.
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