troche zgaduje; 'afabularny' rozumiem tu jako pozbawiony fabuly, czyli 'plotless';


""Nothing can explain the attraction of this almost plotless novel except the extraordinary precision of Brookner's analysis — her ability, again and again, to capture our common but private anxieties in a painful demonstration of self-reliance:"

"The critical and popular success of the novel motivated Pearson to return to Neely again and again in subsequent novels, and to perpetuate, if not his own postage stamp of earth, his very own style of prolix, plotless, rambling yarn-spinning."