ENGL 65FM Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Unreliable Narrator
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It does not permit itself to be read: (cid:522)er lasst sich nicht lesen(cid:523)-reading that depends on the desire of the reader to uncover the secret/mystery of the text; to decipher; Narrator sitting in a coffee house people watching and notices someone who electrifies his curiosity; follows the individual to no revelation; Coffeehouses became a site of intersection for the mass public; where the modern form of newspaper got its start-served as a networking area. There was immense censorship under the system of monarchy; the coffeehouse worked to break that supervision up-freedom to talk, read, and publish controversial topics. The mystery of human existence-everyone is jostling together, (cid:522)i looked at the passengers in masses, and thought of them in their aggregate relations. Soon, however, i descended to details, and regarded with minute interest the innumerable varieties of figure, dress, gait, visage, and expression of countenance(cid:523)
