Flanagan also illustrates the experiences of the Japanese officers as they grapple with notions of duty and honor, even as they inflict torture and misery on the prisoners in service to the Empire. The suffering of the POWs is shown in great detail as they struggle to build the railroad. A gas explosion has destroyed the hotel his uncle owned, and Ella presumes Amy to be among the dead. While Dorrigo is in the camp, he receives a letter from Ella with a newspaper clipping. They have an affair for the summer before he leaves for the war, and it is the memory of Amy that sustains him through much of his time in the camps. Later he will learn that she is married to his uncle Keith.
Before leaving for the war, he meets a woman named Amy in a bookstore.
He is married to a woman named Ella but carries on constant affairs. Dorrigo would survive the camp but then go on to become a famous surgeon and the subject of documentaries about his perseverance in the camp.ĭorrigo believes himself to be a fraud and a bad man. The narrative structure jumps back and forth between present and future, alternating between Dorrigo’s experiences in the camp and his struggles as a modern-day man who is grappling with fame. Dorrigo is an Australian man who enlists in the war, and the Japanese soon take him as a prisoner of war. Although the novel has many characters-even minor characters occasionally receive their own chapter-it focuses on the story of Dorrigo Evans. Prisoners of War of the Japanese 1942–1945. Yuki Tanaka, Tim McCormack, and Gerry Simpson, 227–239. In Beyond Victor’s Justice? The Tokyo War Crimes Trial Revisited, ed. Wandering in Intersectional Time: Subjectivity and Identity in Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North. Guardian Live Event: Book Club with Richard Flanagan. Richard Flanagan in Conversation with Patrick McGrath. Is His Name Alwyn? London Review of Books, 36. The Line: A Man’s Experience a Son’s Quest to Understand. New York: Knopf.įlanagan, Arch, and Martin. The War Diaries of Weary Dunlop: Java and the Burma-Thailand Railway 1942–1945. On the Narrow Road: Journey into a Lost Japan. Newcastle upon Tyne: Myrmidon, 2014.ĭowner, Lesley.
Frames of War: When is Life Grievable? 2009. Notes on the Thai-Burma Railway Part II: Asian Romusha The Silenced Voices of History. Man Booker Prize Winner Richard Flanagan: ‘The Narrow Road to the Deep North Was a Novel I Never Wanted to Write’.
0 kommentar(er)
