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The Flute Player

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The Flute Player (Gollancz, 1979) is a fiction book by British novelist, poet, playwright and translator Donald Michael Thomas, known as D. M. Thomas. Thomas considers the book to be one of his six strongest novels.^[1] It was Thomas' first novel to be published, though it was the second he had written.^[2]

The book tells the story of Elena, a woman in an unspecified city and unspecified country who lives through tumultuous political changes. During this time she is forced to make ends meet by working as a prostitute, dancer, artist's model and servant. According to Thomas, "This novel emerged out of fascination with Russian poets and particularly Anna Akhmatova. I wanted a generic figure, a woman who preserved the truth of the word, while chaos reigned all around her. I didn't want to individualise the characters too much, so there is very little dialogue in this novel."^[2]

The plot is told in the past tense third person except for short sections in the present tense and first person.

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1. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.dmthomasonline.net/articles.html | title=Novels | publisher=DMThomas.online.net | accessdate=29 July 2015}}
2. ^¹{{cite web | url=http://www.dmthomasonline.net/articles_122937.html | title=Novels | publisher=DMThomasonline.net | accessdate=29 July 2015}}

2 : 1979 British novels|Novels by D. M. Thomas

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