5/24/2023 0 Comments Normal people rooney![]() ![]() ![]() With that in mind, fans of Normal People would do well to travel back in time and build a happy stack of Jane Austen novels to work through.Īnd it works out nicely that most Austen fans would recommend beginning with her most famous work: Pride and Prejudice, which also happens to be the Austen book that is most like Normal People. ![]() And no writer today does the same thing better than Sally Rooney. I’d go so far as to call Rooney the Austen of the 21st century.įans of Austen’s novels, especially Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, and Emma, know that Austen was as interested in satirising the class politics and social dynamics of her period as she was in telling a good love story or family drama.Īusten was a genius at deconstructing and poking fun at those wrapped up in class politics. I’ve seen some, but perhaps not enough, comparisons between Sally Rooney and Jane Austen. ![]()
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