Its proportions — big theme, simple situation, clear and subtle narrative — feel exactly right.
The premise of Kafka's story and its subtle narrative constructions aren't necessarily obvious material for a dance.
While Kemal's works appear to be realistic and straightforward, his subtle narrative techniques ensure that his works are appreciated by a wide range of readers.
The stories, set in the 19th century and concerned with aristocracy, breeding and legitimacy, and self-delusion, combine romantic and supernatural elements with subtle narrative irony.
The filleting and crude paraphrasing used to render down what is in fact a tender and subtle narrative did much damage.
This clearsightedness — combined with her subtle narrative sleights of hand and her willingness to broach essential subjects like the fate of would-be migrants to the rich North — gives her fiction a rare integrity that shines through the sinuous prose.
A parable of contrasts between family life in an Indian town and an American suburb, Desai's subtle narrative explored the question of who fed whom and how lovingly and whether such feeding satisfied her characters' spiritual hunger.
If "Pure" has a flaw, it's that once the novel's insistent metaphors begin to accumulate, from the mirrored halls of the court of the Sun King to the wolf-like creature prowling the charnel pits, they push an otherwise subtle narrative toward something a little too close to allegory.
