Interesting. I've actually read Parade's End. Not in English I must add. I found it a terrible bore. It was a long time ago I read it but I seem to remember thinking that Sylvia was older than Christopher, there was at least a 90% chance her son wasn't his and they definitely didn't love each other. She seemed to me to be a bitch with hardly any redeeming features and Christopher was an idiot. He wouldn't divorce her because of some daft idea of male chivalry.
The book is very long because it's several made into one. The last part is mostly the thoughts of Christopher's older brother as he lies dying. The war section is an example of how to write war scenes of death and carnage and make them boring.
It seems that Stoppard must have altered it quite a bit to make it interesting, or perhaps the German version is different? {Joke}.
Must add that I don't remember any sex. It's mentioned but there are, as far as I can recall, no sex scenes at all and it was written at a time when sex scenes in novels were out.
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The book is very long because it's several made into one. The last part is mostly the thoughts of Christopher's older brother as he lies dying. The war section is an example of how to write war scenes of death and carnage and make them boring.
It seems that Stoppard must have altered it quite a bit to make it interesting, or perhaps the German version is different? {Joke}.
Must add that I don't remember any sex. It's mentioned but there are, as far as I can recall, no sex scenes at all and it was written at a time when sex scenes in novels were out.
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