#honestly it's the pages of interior design description that really gave it away

[pilferingapples]

just started reading The Cross of Berny , an epistolary novel written as a collaborative experiment between Delphine Gay-Girardin, Jules Sandeau, Mery, and Theophile Gautier, with them each writing the letters of a single character in reply to one or more of the others , wondering if I can tell which one is Gautier (the only one of the four I’ve read enough to really try) without checking the guide

Letter One:  Hello I am a woman and an absolute Romantic and I am going to Cause Problems on Purpose because the world needs. DRAMA. 

Letter Two: Woe! There is a great drama and mystery around the woman I love! Friend, I know you will laugh at me, but pity me in my romantic distress and give me your counsel!

Letter Three: buddy I am ABSOLUTELY laughing at you, but I applaud her sense of drama. My only counsel is that you should come be gay with me and the lads in this incredibly scenic landscape, which I shall now describe at length for five pages. 

it’s subtle but. I think I have A Guess. 

#Cross of Berny #Four People and a Shoelace #honestly it's the pages of interior design description that really gave it away