American Literature / Unit 18 AML 1735 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ruth, Sylvie, and the Permeable Self
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The idea
Ruth narrates, and the witness says the individual voice and its guiding consciousness are mixed up in the material substance of the world, which gives them a fixity and a fragility at once. Ruth struggles to fit a self into what counts as a normal person.
In practice
A voice dissolving into its world.
Where people slip
Anonymity and ghostliness are the book's mode.
Your place on the trail
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