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Indeed, all the characters are "ensnared" in some way, whether captives of guilt, class, money or insecurity.
As ever, Barker disentangles questions of responsibility and guilt, class and personal loyalty, and the role of art in wartime to produce a stunning work of historical fiction.
Hornung's stories dealt with a wider range of themes than crime: he examined scientific and medical developments, guilt, class and the unequal role played by women in society.
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But race certainly got a look-in: perhaps only Zadie Smith, with her unerring ear for language, patter, patois, irony and contradiction, could have got away with having a black woman (Natalie, born Keisha) sneer so dismissively at others from her background who hadn't made it, and yet turn out to have the saddest life of all, riddled with undeserved guilt over class and race betrayal.
Then there is Melchior, her seducer, a congenital free-thinker expelled from school for imparting the facts of life in diagram form to a guilt-stricken class-mate.
The class guilt drums on and on.
I would feel a lot of class guilt the whole time.
If fear was one component of the class, guilt was another.
Their activism was more about passion and urgency (and perhaps a bit of class guilt) than the formalities of dialectical materialism.
It also seems like a transition into too much opulence right now - I would feel a lot of class guilt the whole time as well.
Harrison's social and cultural journey away from that world by means of a grammar school education and a degree in classics provoked responses in him that his poetry conveys with imaginative vehemence and caustic wit: anger at the deprivations and humiliations endured by the working class; guilt over the way his talent had lifted him away from these.
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