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A review by _astridedwards_
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5.0
After more than twenty years since publication, The Secret History is still the only novel I have come across that captures the intensity, isolation and rapture that comes with studying the Classics under the sway of an enigmatic teacher.
Richard Papen is the 'unreliable narrator' in the tradition of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. Camilla Macaulay is the mysterious, doomed Classical woman. And Henry Winter is the embodiment of the flawed hero, the removed intellectual, the failed Ideal Man.
A brilliant debut. A modern day tragedy. And reminder that the past will always influence us.
Richard Papen is the 'unreliable narrator' in the tradition of Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby. Camilla Macaulay is the mysterious, doomed Classical woman. And Henry Winter is the embodiment of the flawed hero, the removed intellectual, the failed Ideal Man.
A brilliant debut. A modern day tragedy. And reminder that the past will always influence us.