Word: theemperorã
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...whole novel suffers fromSchwartz’s lack of engagement with thecentral character. He doesn’t feel theneed to empathize with her. He playsaround with the facts of her life withoutever assembling them into a character.His attitude can be embarrassingly reductive,as when Haruko describes theEmperor??€™s reaction to her breakdown:“The hurt frustration he showed on realizinghis insufficiency—the woundedperplexity of a deeply practical manin the face of irregularities of a femalenature (that apparently sound mechanismwhich nonetheless may decide, forwhatever reason, simply to cease functioning)—could...
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