Posted by Dave Thewlis on December 01, 2014 at 06:09:02 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Things We Don't Like! posted by Peter Ceresole on November 30, 2014 at 20:43:47:
We know that the plot for GN was proposed to Ransome by a third party (not near my references now but I believe he was or had been in Kenya?)
Is it possible that Ransome never fully internalized the story-line to the degree that he did with his own plots (however difficult they were to come by) and those the book has a slightly different feel? It's always seemed a bit of an outlier to me, although I never thought it was meta-fiction in the sense of PD and ML.