{"id":218,"date":"2008-04-25T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T08:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-05-14T10:48:02","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T08:48:02","slug":"the-harvard-crimson-on-the-white-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"The Harvard Crimson on The White King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=523295\">The Harvard Crimson<\/a> looks at The White King. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This disconnect from their lived reality and the one the reader sees in the novel seems surreal. Dragom\u00e1n is able to straddle the fine line between showing us what Djata does not understand and allowing us to understand Djata as an 11-year-old child. We see that he is a victim of circumstance, that what seems ridiculous is actually just depressing, and we sympathize with him. Djata\u2019s environment, written rich with details, becomes heart wrenching, because this is the only world he knows. As he declares that he would give up anything to have his father back, we realize that this child\u2019s deepest desire is, in reality, an exercise in futility. And that strikes deep.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The full piece is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article.aspx?ref=523295\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harvard Crimson looks at The White King. &#8220;This disconnect from their lived reality and the one the reader sees in the novel seems surreal. Dragom\u00e1n is able to straddle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kritikak","category-reviews","has_no_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyorgydragoman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}