![]() ![]() We become a part of the novel without even realizing it. We struggle to watch a struggler struggling. It is the ultimate multi-dimensional novel in this sense: we watch a watcher watching. It is a search for an answer, and we not only go on the journey of the search but we are participants in watching the searcher search. The story of a story unfolding is also what The History of Love is about. It is this dual tension that fuels the novel. And she creates in Alma a character so in need of being understood, and yet so beyond understanding that the tension is magnified. That tension between what we know and what we want to know keeps us riveted. Krauss creates a character in Leo Gursky who we need to understand and who is so very hard to understand. The History of Love works so incredibly well as a piece of literary artistry because it taps into some of the greatest tension we as readers can experience, and it makes us fall in love. There is a person in the world who understands me so intimately and so terribly well, and it is this person who gave me this book. I got this book from one of my closest friends a friend I met late in life but without whom I could not exist as the person I am today. The History of Love changed the way I look at books. There are books that are wonderful and then there are books that change the way you look at books. ![]()
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