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This change of mind has come about for a couple of reasons.
In the first place, reading Gabriele Tergit's "Effingers" reminded me of how satisfying a read a well observed family saga can be. I'm pretty sure that Tergit had read both "Buddenbrooks" and the Galsworthy. Previously I read the Thomas Mann, thinking of it as a key work in European literature, but had been inclined to regard the Galsworthy as something that I could afford to pass over -- I admit that a little bit of Virginia Woolf snobbery about "middlebrow" fiction was probably at work here too. But I might just enjoy the Galsworthy!
Then my interest was prompted by this BBC feature on a new television adaptation. It reminded me that a family saga does not have to consist of Mann like novels of ideas to be probing and revelatory.
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20260320-the-story-that-skewered-the-british-class-system
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