The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are fused together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion. This is the only volume of the Baroque Cycle that is so confused; the novels contained in the other two volumes are read in order.
Novels differ from earlier narrative fiction in a certain freedom from stereotypes in plot, character, and names.
The people who exist and the things that transpire in novels are recognizable as behaving and occurring in believable human ways -- things happen in the fictional world according to laws that are essentially like those governing the everyday world.
Readers of novels "identify" or "empathize" with the heroes and heroines of novels, suggesting a greater closeness between readers and novel characters than between readers and characters in other fictional forms.
The Confusion consists of two books, Bonanza and The Juncto which are fused together, so that one jumps back and forth between them as one reads through The Confusion.
This is the only volume of the Baroque Cycle that is so confused; the novels contained in the other two volumes are read in order.
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