![]() ![]() Which, like history, maintains only the illusion of such a structure. “It seemed that Jack, here, had blundered into the fourth or fifth act of a drama – neither a comedy nor a tragedy, but a history.”Īnd although the sentence refers to somebody else’s historical drama, it self-consciously echoes the structure of the novel. ![]() Perhaps the most apt definition I have arrived at comes from the novel itself: It spans decades and continents, its subject matter is difficult to pin down, its method is an even more elusive beast. Quicksilver, the first part of the Baroque Cycle trilogy, is vast and winding. Read the blurbs if you are looking for that, a review of this type just wouldn’t really be a review, but rather an extended blurb. ![]() Swatting-a-lame-old-fly is the kind of ease I’m going for here. Quicksilver is a book that defies with ease any attempts at writing a pithy and flashy review. ![]()
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