Masters: An Italian Affair

Fraser's use of the second person makes this seem like a giant joke. As this is the first novel I've had to read ironically for class, I tried to find some artistry in the piece. The "you" image is interesting and in doses is very effective to place yourself in the character's mindset, but eventually you realize that "you" are the most shallow and banal person who needs validation through the nice words of the "peasantry" and sexual gratification outside of your failed and short lived marriage. The "you" makes this novel a little introspective and it could be seen as a way for Fraser to make the women reading this fodder realize that they crave the most simplistic and idiotic things in a space that does not over either. But Fraser does not seem to be either Forster or Nabokov, so I kind of doubt that.