The Bingo Palace | Techniques/Literary Precedents
People who have read only The Bingo Palace will not realize the artistry with which Erdrich has concluded her tetralogy. Probably her most difficult task, aside from bringing in a cast of characters from the previous novels, is to summarize previous actions and indicate continuities. The novel could easy drown in exposition, but it does not. Much summary is handled by alluding to previous actions by having a point of view character think about them. To work successfully, of course, action in the present cannot come to a halt.
The symbolic method that has been Erdrich's...
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