![]() ![]() But there is also something about the artist’s eye, their ability to pick up on ideas and concerns long before the rest of us. ( An idea that has arisen on the Reading group more than once). We see these parallels partly due to the reader’s natural solipsism, the tendency to see our own world reflect in whatever we’re reading. ![]() The town feels increasingly cut off from the rest of the world and from reality. Nationalists are stirring up hatred and tension. Blow-hard demagogues move in to take advantage of this unhappiness for their own political ends, while local papers gleefully make up news stories, aiming to change the future as much as to misrepresent the past. ![]() Many are unemployed, nearly all feel ignored. Ka is a well-connected man, a poet, who travels to the distant, “forgotten” town of Kars, where inhabitants resent and fear educated cosmopolitans. But, reading it in 2018, another thread of spooky prescience emerges. ![]()
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