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Kent Winward
May 18, 2013 rated it it was ok
Dostoyevsky does a better unreliable narrator. Flaubert does better adultery (as do many contemporary authors -- Roth, Jacobsen, etc.). The story had its moments, but crumbled in a shambles, like the characters lives, in the end.
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