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Death in Venice
In Our Time
The Limits of Irony in the Novella
I think this is a very important question of empathy and who are we invited to empathize with through the narrative perspective. Sean said that we are also invited to be critical of Ashenba. I didn't feel that. I think I felt throughout that his sort of narcissistic interest and the narrator's sympathy with him really lasted. That's what I found so uncomfortable and the Herren law so thinking of unmanned. This idea of, you know, there being no man, but this is no master there. The film version which we've discussed loses all sense of that.
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