![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That Tartt’s prologue reveals the identity of the victim and perpetrators of the murder. Richard Papen, our narrator, looks back to the events that lead him and four other students to murder Bunny, a fellow student and ‘friend’ of theirs. At close range, though, they were an arresting party-at least to me, who had never seen anything like them, and to whom they suggested a variety of picturesque and fictive qualities.” “Four boys and a girl, they were nothing so unusual at a distance. But, as I have chosen to review all of the novels that I read, I will give it a shot. To speak of it as a work of fiction almost pains me. ![]() It is impossible for me to precisely articulate or express what The Secret History means to me. Reading this novel makes for an all-consuming, almost feverish, experience. I have read it twice now and each time it has blown me away. Written in an incandescent prose The Secret History is a ferociously erudite and delightfully mischievous work of staggering genius. But if I’ve learned one thing in my short sad life, it is that that particular platitude is a lie. “One likes to think there’s something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. The Secret History lives rent free in my head. ![]()
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