Just as the top layer in a case of herrings is crushed and spoilt, and the fruit next to the crate is bruised and worthless, so too in every generation there are certain men who are on the outside and are made to suffer from the packing case, who only protect those who are in the middle.
Because Louis de Bernieres's best-seller is normally and exclusively read as a love story, and because it is also so evocative of Greecetwo features exploited to the full by the film version ( 2001)nonprofessional readers often complain that its first hundred pages are hard-going and not connected to the main plot. Moreover, professional and non-professional readers alike express disappointment or dissatisfaction with the novel's unresolved ending -which is why, presumably, the film tidies things up so happily while Corelli and Pelagia are still young. In this essay, however, I shall argue that the novel is also a debate about History whose foundations are largely laid in the first, contentious, hundred pages and that it involves a
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