Reading a modernist novel entails bearing in mind a whole new world of ideas, a quite different perspective of giving life to those ideas than other written works and certainly a new aspect of accepting those ideas as a reader. It is not easy to pinpoint modernism's roots and it is also difficult to say exactly what it expresses. However, one thing that is clearly proved in a modernist novel is the fact that there …
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…by their isolation, sexual desire, interaction of time, ugliness of the modern cities and fear. It is a fact that, understanding every little detail in a modernist novel, is impossible; what really happens, however, is the reader is considered to be a human being with the power of mind and the freedom to reach his own conclusions in this kind of writing. Every person's perspective may be different. After all, everything in modernism is relative...