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Wait, you actually understood The Fifth Head of Cerberus? I got the impression the author was planting clues to all the mysteries, complete with a difficulty curve as each novella's mystery became more complex, but I wasn't able to solve the mystery of even the first novella. (I was able to figure out that in the final novella,

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the guy in the prison cell is actually the half-shapeshifter boy,

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but I still wasn't able to determine what the ending meant.)

Edited 2013-12-18 02:33 (UTC)

I wouldn't say that I understood all of it (and it's also been a while since I re-read the whole thing together) but I would say I understood some of it, and the Proust references are pretty plain to be seen (for instance I would say that the first sentence is a pretty clear reference - "When I was a boy my brother David and I had to go to bed early whether we were sleepy or not" against "For a long time I was accustomed to going to bed early").

I think, for a lot of it, it's less about figuring out the exact nature of events, and more to figure out the geometry of the thematic content - especially of identity, between the explorer and the half-shapeshifter boy in the final novella, and in the complicated familial relationships in the first novella. To go into more detail I'd have to go through and re-read it (which I might do anyway now that I'm thinking of it).

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