The Roads Round Pisa
May. 14th, 2022 08:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo I'd read The Roads Round Pisa twice and still didn't understand how the pieces of the mosaic (an image Dinesen herself uses) fit together- but I'm not used to being fooled by literature (Hey, I'm an Eng Lit graduate) so I went online and found someone who could explain it to me. Now I know why the duel was fought and why two of the principals have an intense encounter in which they quote Dante at one another- but the deeper mysteries remain. I understand the plot, but what does it all mean? And here I think Dinesen gives us a sphinx-like smile and says, "Well, what do you think?"
O, I have theories- but I doubt that Dinesen herself had more than theories in spite of being the God of this intensely realised little universe.
The Roads Round Pisa is the first of the Seven Gothic Tales- and I ask myself whether I'm going to have to put in as much work with the other six- which, so far, I've only read once and found entrancing and elusive- like dreams. If so- well- what fun!
O, I have theories- but I doubt that Dinesen herself had more than theories in spite of being the God of this intensely realised little universe.
The Roads Round Pisa is the first of the Seven Gothic Tales- and I ask myself whether I'm going to have to put in as much work with the other six- which, so far, I've only read once and found entrancing and elusive- like dreams. If so- well- what fun!
