Friday, 8 May 2020

Attempting to understand Sylvie and Bruno...


File:Sylvie and Bruno illustration page 11.png - Wikimedia Commons

(Image via google) 

With thanks to @phantomwise and @curiouserandcuriouser

Thanks to some good friends, I am now busily reading my way through Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno. We are taking this a chapter at a time, and have just done the short story which was later adapted as one of the chapters, and also chapter 1. 

It also helps that several of my friends have read Sylvie and Bruno before and have been fantastic with easing me (and several other friends) into what is often considered to be an extremely difficult piece of work.

I don't claim that reading these through properly for the first time will be easy, or even that I might enjoy half of it. At the moment, I'm just aiming to understand, even in part. 

I want to know what I've been missing as a carroll reader.