Rebecca: Chapters 1-7

Close Reads Podcast

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Arts, Books

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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This week we invited Patreon supporters to join us for a special live episode and here it is! Join David, Heidi, and Tim (and the live audience) for a discussion of the first seven chapters of Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca. Topics of conversation include the gothic nature of the novel, Du Maurier's unique writing style, and (as usual with mysteries of this sort) the question of who the antagonist is.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm David Kern.
0:03.4	I'm Heidi White.
0:04.6	And I'm Tim McIntosh.
0:06.0	And you are listening to Close Reads, a podcast for The Incurable Reader.
0:10.0	And we are here to discuss Daphne Demurey's 1938 novel, Rebecca.
0:15.0	We are here to discuss the first seven chapters of it.
0:17.7	And we are joined by a crowd of witnesses.
0:23.4	Vast crowd of beautiful witnesses.
0:24.6	That's right.
0:28.1	I like when you said a vast crowd of beautiful witnesses, Matthew Huff in particular waves.
0:29.1	He sounds beautiful.
0:30.0	Yes, I am a beautiful witness.
0:32.4	So, yeah, we are here with some of our Patreon supporters and it's our first ever attempt at a live recording of Close Reads that was online.
0:41.3	We've done them at conferences and things like that, which is very different than this,
0:45.6	having people actually in the room.
0:47.2	But we are, of course, here to start a new book.
0:49.3	So we've got to discuss our histories with this book, if there is any.
0:52.9	Heidi, have you read this book before?
0:54.2	I have never read this book before.
0:55.9	Never.
0:56.3	I've heard some things about it.
0:57.9	You know, heard the grapevine.
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