![]() ![]() Eliot’s narrator in “The Waste Land” crouches between winter and spring, despair and hope, meditating on his modernist world and its barren landscapes. It’s a symbolic map to the novel’s themes. ![]() ![]() When I finished reading, I realized that Krueger’s opening reference to Eliot is more than a nodding mention. While Eliot may never have known Minnesota in November, William Kent Krueger in his latest novel certainly does. No, for Cork, November “was the bastard of all months,” full of ghosts and regrets. Never felt “spitting sleet” like “bits of gravel” on his skin, never boated on a lake when “the sky was a roil of poisonous-looking clouds that turned the water black,” never felt so cold that his bones creaked. Eliot described April as the “cruelest month,” but according to Cork O’Connor, Eliot never knew Minnesota in November. ![]()
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