Eat, Pray, Love author had opportunity to make a stand against idea that novels should be treated as ethical instruction manuals
All of this, because the book is set in 20th-century Siberia. It hardly needs pointing out that a novel set in a place far from Moscow many generations ago – written by an American woman, no less – is unlikely to be a paean to 21st-century. Nor does it seem particularly probable that any part of The Snow Forest will contain a contemporary reference to the invasion, running commentary on the principles of president Zelenskiy, or ruminations on the benefits and perils of Nato membership.
The very setting of a book does not need to be approached with a magnifying glass and a fine tooth comb in order to exhume its moral failings ? Or when the internet – writ large – decided in 2016 that Taylor Swift was public enemy number one, pushing her into hiding for years? Social media can be a toxic combination of frenzied mobs and moralising diktats. The victim might change, but the process rarely wavers.
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