It's not quite as alienating as it sounds, especially since McCarthy seems more at home with cultural theory than traditional plot and character – "events!" says U, "If you want those, you'd best stop reading now" – but it's hugely frustrating too.
Masato Kato directed and wrote the main story, leaving sub-plots and minor character events to other staff.
"The scoreline last year left a scar on some of our players and to come back was a big character event.
A leitmotif is a short musical phrase that is associated with a certain character, event, or idea.
As with the characters, events are distorted.
Fifty four anecdotes tell about ancient and modern Poland, customs, characters, events and places.
There are characters, events and miniature dramas that unfold in the course of the ballet company's work.
"It is an old-fashioned, almost self-indulgent narrative," Paul Kennedy wrote in the Book Review, "and thus rich in its descriptions of characters, events and landscapes".
It is an old-fashioned, almost self-indulgent narrative, and thus rich in its descriptions of characters, events and landscapes (it is also admirably illustrated).
In his review for the Guardian, Alberto Manguel called the book "a vast collection of characters, events, houses, food, objects that, the reader realises at the end of 600 pages, are summed up in the name Istanbul".
A Strangeness in My Mind is almost just such an encyclopedia: a vast collection of characters, events, houses, food, objects that, the reader realises at the end of 600 pages, are summed up in the name Istanbul.
