Word: protagonists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...characters of mother and daughter are completely overshadowed by the story's half-mad protagonist, serpentile in his stealthy pedophilia. The mother, meanwhile, is reduced to the stereotype of the hypochondriac nag, while the daughter--behind the violet mist of the poetic physical description--is no more than a cute, slightly buck-toothed kid on roller skates...
...addition, the protagonist's impressions are spiced with cynical wit. Unable to perceive his bulbous new bride as his "wife," he refers to her simply as "the person," a "cumbersome behemoth" who stares at him intently with her "two eyes and wart...
Luckily for readers, Suskind is as skillful at describing scents as his protagonist is at detecting them, allowing us to share the unique experience of Grenouille's sensual explorations, if not his unbiased reception of both pleasant and putrid smells. Eighteenth-century France is a sensual playground for Grenouille, as Suskind writes...
...junior Cabinet Minister is found with his throat slashed in the dingy vestry behind the altar of St. Matthew's Anglican Church in the Paddington section of the city. Across the room, a derelict lies dead, killed in the same grisly manner. In charge of the investigation: the sleuth-protagonist of six previous James novels, brooding Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh, a widowed intellectual who loves baroque music. As he did in such previous cases as The Black Tower and Shroud for a Nightingale, Dalgliesh focuses on himself as much as on the murders; deduction is a voyage of self...
...WOLFF STORIES seem at first discrete items of interest about a soldier, or a priest or the strangeness of people who live in the desert. But they bloom from the particular to the universal. Listen to the socially marginalized protagonist of "Soldier...