The novel is realistic and naturalistic in the manner of Theodore Dreiser. The obsession with madness suggests Poe; the theme of murder and guilt invites comparison with Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment (1866). The opening sentence "I was born" recalls Dickens's David Copperfield (1849-1850); the focus on a dead man and his impact beyond the grave, both George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-1872) and Trollope's Bare/tester Towers (1857). But the problem of unassigned guilt immediately recalls.....
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