![]() Thus the 'imperial embrace' of England and India recurs in the mirror the whole, so that the large picture descends intoĪll its detail, while each part repeats the whole on an ever-increasing Evaīrann likens the structure of the Raj Quartet to the fractal, a conceptįrom mathematics and physics: "A fractal is a geometric pattern whose Scramble time and multiply perspectival accounts" (Brann 185). "has objective oversight" of various characters' "retellings that An unnamed narrator (variously referred to Realistic "places like Pankot and Mirat" and "really real places like New Delhi andīombay" (Brann 183, 185). Taken together are "thick with connected peopleĪnd interwoven events," transpiring in different places-fictional but While each novel (arguably) stands alone, the four novels Mostly imaginary characters in mostly real places against the backdrop of actual The four novels of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet present ![]() Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.Ĭorrections, suggestions, and recommended sources įor sharing her articles on the Raj Quartet. ![]()
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