Imagine the plot of Dostoyevsky s Crime and Punishment crossed with the story of Euripides Bacchae set against the backdrop of Bret Easton Ellis s Rules of Attraction and told in the elegant, ruminative voice of Evelyn Waugh s Brideshead Revisited. The product, surprisingly enough, isn t a derivative jumble, but a remarkably powerful novel that seems sure to win a lengthy stay on the best-seller lists.
Well, she wasn t wrong everyone s favorite novel from the 90s was a full blown phenomenon, hyped to infinity but with good reason, both critically and commercially successful and though not every critic was on board, the Cult of Donna was born. Plus, as Ted Gioia put it, The Secret History is, by any measure, a significant fiction, and arguably the book that tilted the scales away from the minimalist 1980s fictions with their Raymond Carveresque starkness, and toward the more maximalist sensibility that has been in the ascendancy in recent years.
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