Howard Brazee wrote: > Francesco Nicoletti wrote: > >> This thread has inspired me to three further questions. Given our >> esteemed author's tendency to work through an unreliable narrator, >> with his or own agenda, is there such a narrator for Brokedown Palace >> ? Who would it be ? What is their agenda ? >> > My guess is that there is no such narrator. Steve wanted to do a > political allegory and he set it in a world we are familiar with - > giving us some more insights into that world - but the purpose of the > novel is very different from the purpose of other books we have read > set in that world. > > Again - this is my guess only. > I mostly agree with you. Any parallels between Brokedown Palace & Teckla probably come about because a) they are both about revolutions & b) they were written (well copyrighted) within a year of each other. But speculation is fun. Francesco