Dear Reader

5. An Artist of the Floating World / The House of the Spirits.


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Michael picks at the banality of evil portrayed in Kazuo Ishiguro’s An

Artist of the Floating World, while Emily
desperately wants to finish Isabel Allende’s enchanting work of magical
realism, The House of the Spirits, but is
prevented from it by living on a windswept rock in the North Atlantic. They
talk about art that depicts difficult and unpleasant things, spoilers, moral
culpability, second-guessing your tastes, and history repeating itself.

Show Notes.

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro.

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende.

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