Immortality | Characters/Techniques
The novel Immortality is occupied with the fates of two sets of lovers: Agnes (the central character, as most surely evoking the sympathy of the author and therefore his reader), her well-meaning but inept husband Paul, her sister Laura, and Laura's lover Bernard. While Laura is demonstrative, erotic, at home in her own body, aggressive and destructive, Agnes is the opposite: highly sensitive, desirous of solitude, even a bit weary of the contests of love and life. As Laura's histrionics of despair threaten the rare peace to be found, Agnes is killed, quite without reason, in an...
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