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subtextual 57 Brontë sisters 57 finely etched 57 elegiac 57 affectless 57 mawkishly 57 neurasthenic 57 blackly comic 57 intertextual 57 imagistic 57 Dostoyevskian 57 fin de siecle 57 pathos 56 digressive 56 Python esque 56 visually ravishing 56 Borgesian 56 veers dangerously close 56 philosophical musing 56 Felliniesque 56 elegiac tone 56 solipsistic 56 mordant wit 56 Blanche du Bois 56 grotesquerie 56 Sartrean 56 Pelevin 56 self dramatizing 56 finely shaded 56 metafiction 56 self lacerating 56 postmodern 56 Mélisande 56 meta theatrical 56 existentialist 56 existential anguish 56 literal minded 56 melancholic 56 Hitchcockian suspense 56 Dostoevsky novel 56 wholly believable 56 naturalistic 56 nature morte 56 Mahlerian 56 saturnine 56 mirthless 56 existential loneliness 56 wryness 56 Falstaffian 56 Melancholic 56 drollness 56 mordant 56 depthless 56 Cotard 56 unheroic 56 sardonic 55 picaresque 55 wonderfully nuanced 55 phantasmagoria 55 child's eye view 55 Swiftian 55 allegorical 55 tragi comic 55 blackly 55 unbearably sad 55 metafictional 55 essayistic 55 Wordsworthian 55 cherishable 55 beautifully modulated 55 plangent 55 Chaplinesque 55 delicately wrought 55 unquiet 55 Chandleresque 55 poeticism 55 doubleness 55 lyric poetry 55 Trigorin 55 aphoristic 55 Dada esque 55 unabashedly sentimental 55 elegaic 55 Brechtian 55 unreliable narrators 55 inwardness 55 Lacanian 55 rueful 55 Maeterlinck 55 unadorned prose 55 limn 55 epigrammatic 55 Hieronymous Bosch 55 magical realist 55 Mountstuart 55 Dantean 55 deftly captures 55 absurdist playwright 55 everydayness 55 rivetingly 55 longueur 55 Blakean 55 antiheroic 55 Four Quartets 55 recognizably human 55 orotund 55 whimsical 55 unexpressive 55 oedipal 55 objective correlative 55 stagy 55 stagey 54 impassivity 54 strangely endearing 54 Kubrickian 54 uncanniness 54 limned 54 melodramatic 54 quasi autobiographical 54 Wellesian 54 recurring motifs 54 anomic 54 lumpish 54 Homeric epic 54 whimsy 54 deliriously funny 54 Shakespearian 54 Treplev 54 aperçu 54 uninvolving 54 prose poems 54 thinly sketched 54 unpoetic 54 Grand Guignol 54 Myfanwy Piper 54 Hölderlin 54 existential dread 54 metaphysical 54 staginess 54 Lynchian 54 symbolist 54 plotless 54 humor pathos 54 wry asides 54 Jacobean revenge 54 fey 54 heartstring pulling 54 protag 54 ruminative 54 authorial 54 bleakly humorous 54 tragicomic 54 self reflexive 54 ineffably sad 54 mimesis 54 emotionally constipated 54 mordantly funny 54 Unsentimental 54 playlet 54 poignantly captures 54 dialogue crackles 54 Marivaux 54 darker undercurrents 54 Oedipus myth 54 Artaud 54 allegorical tale 54 richly imaginative 54 moonstruck 54 self reflexivity 54 Cripple Billy 54 Shakespearean tragedies 54 didacticism 54 existential 54 Hemingwayesque 54 beautifully nuanced 54 purgatorial 54 Hamlet Ophelia 54 vividly evoked 54 banal 54 poetic musings 54 memento mori 54 achingly funny 54 overly melodramatic 54 morose 53 mawkish 53 piteous 53 interiority 53 nonlinear storytelling 53 rhapsodic 53 supernatural overtones 53 overemphatic 53 darkly satirical 53 comically absurd 53 vividly captures 53 reductive 53 wryly humorous 53 sheer strangeness 53 adolescent awkwardness 53 narrative coherence 53 lugubriousness 53 hamminess 53 ungraspable 53 desolating 53 utterly captivating 53 fin de siècle 53 formalist 53 Handelian 53 naturalism 53 lush romanticism 53 wonderfully evocative 53 endearingly eccentric 53 triteness 53 veddy British 53 solipsist 53 Ballardian 53 darkly comical 53 weepy melodrama 53 onanistic 53 Victorianism 53 Bachian 53 Nietzschean 53 inexpressive 53 Max Beerbohm 53 hieratic 53 lachrymose 53 eponymous protagonist 53 Hogarthian 53 classic absurdist comedy 53 inflects 53 darkly hilarious 53 deliciously subversive 53 O'Rowe 53 novelistic 53 phantasmal 53 nameless narrator 53 rebarbative 53 Bergmanesque 53 Zubin Varla 53 Jean Giraudoux 53 psychologically astute 53 shticky 53 absurdist humor 53 catharses 53 AE Houseman 53 groan inducing 53 Daniil Kharms 53 pensiveness 53 lonesomeness 53 poetic flourishes 53 incantatory 53 expressionistic 53 suffuses 53 Benito Cereno 53 sentimentalizes 53 Euripides Medea 53 solitariness 53 Tolstoyan 53 subversively funny 53 philosophical ruminations 53 picaresque novel 53 Prince Myshkin 53 evocative 53 actressy 53 overwrought 53 unengaging 53 dolorous 53 Jamesian 53 Eumenides 53 sunniness 53 readerly 53 poetic prose 53 Proustian 53 dyspeptic 53 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 53 wryly amusing 53 aestheticized 53 faux naif 53 postmodern irony 53 recurring motif 53 grotesqueness 53 emotional catharsis 53 stolidity 53 Pythonesque 53 hardboiled detective 53 idiosyncratic 53 effaces 53 side splittingly 53 uncinematic 53 cubistic 53 documentarylike 53 pointillistic 53 ghoulishness 53 ponderousness 53 prefigures 53 richly imagined 53 muzzy 53 Whitmanesque 53 utterly beguiling 53 urbane wit 53 utter randomness 53 wry 53 immortally 53 Dickensian 53 Merleau Ponty 53 minute intermissionless 53 ripping yarn 52 Mozartean 52 auteurism 52 antiheroine 52 droll deadpan 52 hallucinatory 52 childlike whimsy 52 finely nuanced 52 Fionnula Flanagan 52 maudlin 52 beguiling 52 mundaneness 52 misanthropy 52 darkly comedic 52 didactic 52 poesy 52 salesman Willy Loman 52 blithe 52 finely wrought 52 Orphée 52 clichéd 52 Godardian 52 wistful longing 52 jarring juxtapositions 52 Samuel Beckett 52 Freudian 52 Grand Manner 52 writerly 52 neurotic 52 darkly comic 52 sublime silliness 52 Mozartian 52 etiolated 52 darkly poetic 52 prelapsarian 52 Holmesian 52 Hitchcockian 52 mirthful 52 Marylouise Burke 52 Euripedes 52 EM Cioran 52 morbid 52 formlessness 52 absurdist comedy 52 epigrams 52 unbearable poignancy 52 thoroughly engrossing 52 actorly 52 filmic 52 bewitchment 52 endlessness 52 hyperarticulate 52 Messud 52 Diego Arciniegas 52 sentimentalized 52 allegoric 52 intellectualized 52 archetypally 52 descriptive passages 52 ineffable 52 Emily Brontë 52 gorgeously sung 52 dryly witty 52 unself conscious 52 delicately nuanced 52 Anita Brookner 52 veers wildly 52 baroquely 52 inescapability 52 Goethe Faust 52 flâneur 52 donnish 52 polymorphous 52 hyperreal 52 overwrought prose 52 Bovary 52 mournfulness 52 viscerally thrilling 52 Moliére 52 unrelievedly 52 poetic sensibility 52 avoids sentimentality 52 mise en scène 52 contemplations 52 dancerly 52 blankness 52 demented 52 Georg Büchner 52 somnambulistic 52 sly wit 52 Oblomov 52 ephemerality 52 Lover Discourse 52 dottiness 52 drably 52 Monty Python esque 52 Maev Beaty 52 koans 52 tweeness 52 philosophizes 52 fantastical 52 Louis MacNeice 52 quasi operatic 52 Shakespearean 52 brooding introspective 52 Orpheus myth 52 impressionistic 52 self parodic 52 Byronic hero 52 Thiérrée 52 Kristine Nielsen 52 unmodern 52 surrealism 52 graspable 52 circusy 52 artspeak 52 bleakly beautiful 52 curiously detached 52 literary pretensions 52 Little Gidding 52 Stephen Dedalus 52 evocations 52 Melville Moby Dick 52 exquisitely rendered 52 mawkish sentimentality 52 Resnais 52 nameless protagonist 52 inarticulacy 52 wonderfully droll 51 Beethovenian 51 tautly constructed 51 subtly nuanced 51 discomfiting 51 Donald Barthelme 51 sententious 51 larky 51 nihilistic 51 erotics 51 poetical 51 Schopenhauer 51 Dashwood sisters 51 doomy 51 Raskolnikov 51 fading Southern belle 51 phantasmagorical 51 unintentionally comical 51 chromatic harmonies 51 arioso 51 bewitchingly 51 darkly ironic 51 De Quincey 51 unornamented 51 Jacobean tragedy 51 sentimentalize 51 illuminatingly 51 spareness 51 Amenábar 51 Théophile Gautier 51 Chekhov 51 Anaïs Nin 51 Caden Cotard 51 psychological acuity 51 wistful 51 discursive 51 roundelay 51 affectionate portrait 51 wistful melancholy 51 mordantly 51 Kleinzahler 51 Kafka Metamorphosis 51 terrifically funny 51 sensualist 51 enraptures 51 Angelica Torn 51 thuddingly 51 dreamlike 51 Verklärte Nacht 51 Mervyn Peake 51 vaudevillian 51 Michael Frayn Copenhagen 51 acerbity 51 Hagar Shipley 51 jocose 51 Captain Vere 51 emotionally stunted 51 comfortingly familiar 51 Flaubert Madame Bovary 51 Seussian 51 jejune 51 bathos 51 psychoanalytical 51 Sorcha Cusack 51 Mrs Dalloway 51 ironic detachment 51 unnameable 51 Suffused 51 unknowability 51 endlessly inventive 51 Jungian archetypes 51 howlingly funny 51 portentous 51 bleakly funny 51 intricately layered 51 Hazel Motes 51 relational aesthetics 51 carnivalesque 51 humourlessness 51 protags 51 homeliness 51 phantasmic 51 deconstructionist 51 unrepressed 51 lyrical prose 51 Bildungsroman 51 Daniel Gerroll 51 absorbingly 51 chthonic 51 voluptuary 51 screamingly funny 51 rumination 51 Rabbit Angstrom 51 transcendentalism 51 slyly witty 51 serio comic 51 rhyming verse 51 tenebrous 51 sitcomish 51 Estragon 51 dadaist 51 grotesques 51 fleshly 51 Hemingway esque 51 unimprovable 51 tricksy 51 achingly sincere 51 curlicued 51 monkish 51 allusive 51 self consciously 51 grotesquery 51 screwball farce 51 Breughel 51 Ionesco 51 powerfully conveys 51 Britten opera 51 offhandedness 51 Humbert Humbert 51 Shakesperean 51 jeu d' esprit 51 irresistibly charming 51 romantic fable 51 unpeopled 51 clichd 51 evanescence 51 rhyming couplets 51 illuminative 51 unscary 51 exquisitely attuned 51 knowingness 51 singspiel 51 austerely beautiful 51 dreamy 51 primitivist 51 swooningly 51 maundering 51 tragi comedy 51 expressionist 51 moroseness 51 Tolkien esque 51 Pirandello 51 richly layered 51 sublimity 51 unbearably poignant 51 ingeniously constructed 51 refreshingly devoid 51 intricate wordplay 51 danse macabre 51 side splittingly funny 51 meta narratives 51 insubstantiality 51 commedia 51 existential despair 51 Dostoevski 51 Juliet Rylance 51 cleareyed 51 rhymed verse 51 Shadow Over Innsmouth 51 postmodernist 51 bildungsroman 51 Conleth Hill 51 surrealist 51 postmodern pastiche 51 unamusing 51 numinous 51 ripely 51 commonplaces 51 surreal dreamlike 51 Alphonse Daudet 51 dreamlike sequences 51 self referential 51 Ginkas 51 Barnaby Rudge 51 contemporary resonances 51 theatricalized 50 leaden 50 Ford Madox Ford 50 witty erudite 50 stylisation 50 unrequited romance 50 wickedly witty 50 entwines 50 profundity 50 cutesy poo 50 tragedians 50 metaphoric 50 maudlin sentimentality 50 rhapsodies 50 Mobius strip 50 Tolstoy Dostoevsky 50 Czeslaw Milosz 50 evocation 50 unbeautiful 50 Nickleby 50 Almereyda 50 Weltschmerz 50 radiantly beautiful 50 Oedipus Complex 50 mawkishness 50 madcap romp 50 Hughesian 50 Twilight Zone ish 50 poetic monologues 50 neo realist 50 avant gardism 50 tragi 50 conceit 50 humorlessness 50 Edith Sitwell 50 artless 50 Joyce Ulysses 50 intricately plotted 50 charmingly offbeat 50 philosopher Alain 50 lingeringly 50 Wozzeck 50 unrelatable 50 unflinching realism 50 philosopher Jean Baudrillard 50 liltingly 50 charmingly naive 50 tragical 50 Portentous 50 childlike 50 Keith Reddin 50 clownishness 50 lyrical passages 50 demotic 50 Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre 50 Nénette 50 timeless fable 50 tragedian 50 archaism 50 deadpan comic 50 melancholia 50 epiphanic 50 meditatively 50 Hieronymus Bosch painting 50 wildly imaginative 50 weaves tale 50 magic realist 50 Giraudoux 50 Shelley Frankenstein 50 suitably creepy 50 acidulous 50 Cioran 50 acter 50 vividly portrays 50 parodic 50 stygian 50 Cavafy 50 numbing sameness 50 unworldliness 50 belabors 50 Canterville Ghost 50 Virginia Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 50 skillfully woven 50 miserablism 50 unmodulated 50 wry understated 50 hackneyed 50 sestina 50 mundanity 50 Ma Mère 50 unflinching portrayal 50 Alcestis 50 Jean Claude Donda 50 fairy tale Sleeping Beauty 50 Erik Edborg 50 RD Laing 50 crotchets 50 Hermann Broch 50 daffy 50 illusionistic 50 Fran Bed 50 apt summation 50 liminality 50 touchingly vulnerable 50 minatory 50 scabrous 50 poor Yorick 50 Krapp Last Tape 50 Veanne Cox 50 dramaturgical 50 Gaston Bachelard 50 autobiographically 50 Monsieur Hire 50 diegetic 50 dramatis 50 aching tenderness 50 Laila Robins 50 ominousness 50 Groag 50 unreliable narrator 50 recurrent motif 50 hyperrealist 50 intuits 50 cloyingly sentimental 50 Ranevskaya 50 unexpected juxtapositions 50 ambivalences 50 archetypal 50 farceur 50 unplaceable 50 moony 50 Grimms fairy tales 50 arrestingly 50 Batuman 50 Wildean wit 50 Cusk 50 picaresque tale 50 evocative imagery 50 Will LeBow 50 Janácek 50 Géricault 50 intricately structured 50 meta fictional 50 bluestocking 50 epistolary 50 macrocosmic 50 daftness 50 refreshingly straightforward 50 painterly 50 Daliesque 50 stilted dialogue 50 spaciness 50 self mythologising 50 literal 50 Thomas Derrah 50 coquettishness 50 winsomeness 50 diagrammatic 50 florid 50 hokiness 50 doleful 50 metaphorical 50 slapstick silliness 50 Edward Gorey 50 deliciously wicked 50 darkly humorous 50 fervid imagination 50 diaristic 50 David Kepesh 50 Darkly funny 50 Gustav von Aschenbach 50 dreamscape 50 miserabilist 50 deftly woven 50 vanitas 50 musicalized 50 disquietingly 50 lovably eccentric 50 blithe spirit 50 disjunctions 50 Rabelaisian 50 à clef 50 off puttingly 50 bitingly satirical 50 finitude 50 misanthropic 50 dotty 50 psychosexual 50 wonderfully imaginative 50 noirish 50 eponymous heroine 50 Pantagruel 50 entrancingly 50 profundities 50 erotically charged 50 heartbreakingly sad 50 Movie Masochist 50 unabashedly romantic 50 acutely perceptive 50 beguiles 50 ineffably 50 comfortless 50 aching loneliness 50 Durang 50 lushly photographed 50 winsomely 50 morbidly funny 50 Danny Scheie 50 Altmanesque 50 poetic imagery 50 labyrinthine plot 50 sentimentalised 50 existential musings 50 Goldengrove 50 attraction repulsion 50 delightfully demented 50 acutely observant 50 uptightness 50 noir ish 50 literary allusions 50 adolescent angst 50 Panych 50 satirical wit 50 omniscient narration 50 Flann O'Brien 50 elegies 50 inexorability 50 wordless 50 Wallander novels 50 grippingly 50 strangely alluring 50 Whiggish 50 rackety 50 Brahmsian 50 clunky exposition 50 reanimates 50 fantasias 50 corporeal 50 Antonin Artaud 50 purposelessness 50 Tzara 50 sardonic humor 50 stark minimalism 49 Erwartung 49 engagingly 49 Bashir Lazhar 49 Weimar cabaret 49 Svankmajer 49 Jason Butler Harner 49 enthrallingly 49 Laurence Sterne 49 bleakly 49 flibbertigibbet 49 Rafe Spall 49 intermittently amusing 49 hyperreality 49 vivid flashbacks 49 thuddingly obvious 49 concupiscent 49 Roland Barthes 49 witty urbane 49 unashamedly sentimental 49 acidly funny 49 Kepesh 49 corporeality 49 Sophocles Oedipus Rex 49 metaphysical musings 49 Kaspar Hauser 49 narcotized 49 earthily 49 Cinematically 49 allusiveness 49 Kavenna 49 familial dysfunction 49 mise en scene 49 banality 49 divertimento 49 proto feminist 49 Requiems 49 daydreamy 49 twilit 49 introspections 49 Georges Perec 49 Kharms 49 exquisitely wrought 49 unremittingly bleak 49 divertingly 49 Three Viewings 49 queasily 49 lovesickness 49 perpetual adolescence 49 vapidness 49 Georges Bataille 49 impishness 49 counterpointing 49 ratiocination 49 fogeyish 49 Michael Cristofer 49 L' Allegro 49 morbidly fascinating 49 Commedia dell'Arte 49 limning 49 deliciously creepy 49 Apollonian 49 Rilke 49 naturalistically 49 Martin Chuzzlewit 49 drear 49 dissonant harmonies 49 madcap 49 densely layered 49 superciliousness 49 Expressionistic 49 Pointillist 49 Ronald Firbank 49 unerring ear 49 prissiness 49 Georges Bernanos 49 Arkadina 49 twee 49 Benoît Poelvoorde 49 sly satire 49 erotic overtones 49 Miéville 49 hauntingly evocative