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Funeral in Berlin Study Guide

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by Len Deighton
About 14 pages (4,269 words)
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In Funeral in Berlin Deighton makes advances in varying his narrative point of view, while continuing to use the anonymous agent as his principal spokesman. The format of the novel begins with a page of quotations taken from Allen Dulles, Premier Khrushchev, R. Southey, Einstein, and R. Lewisohn. Then comes the title page and fifty-one chapters of narrative and description primarily in discourse form. Each chapter is dated in diary or dossier form and is headed by a paradigm or rule concerning the playing of chess. The novel ends with six appendices on poisonous insecticides, West German Intelligence (Gehlen); German Army Intelligence (Abwehr) ; Soviet Intelligence; French Intelligence; and the British Official Secrets Act and its amendments. The narrative point of view is changed in Chapter 2 to the third-person omniscient to disclose the reflections of.....

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Funeral in Berlin from Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction and Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.



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