Grief, dogs and disillusioned writers in the modern prose elegy The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Grief, dogs and disillusioned writers in the modern prose elegy The Friend by Sigrid Nunez

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the themes of mourning, literature and people-animals relationship in The Friend by Sigrid Nunez. It also discusses how the novel conforms to and diverges from certain elegiac conventions. The argument put forward is that by preserving some of these conventions and distorting others the novel becomes a modern elegy in prose, which is characterised by preoccupation with loss. The loss, however, is not only personal but has a more general, all-encompassing character.

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