Critically analyse The English Patient as a modernist novel.

There is dependence on flashback, montages and memory. Figurality comes into the way Hana reacts to Almasy’s stories. On page 135 we are told:

Hana sits by his bed, and she travels like squire beside him during those journeys.

Figurality is strongly there in the following description too:

To Hana the wild gardens were like further rooms. She worked along the edges of them aware always of unexploded mines. In one soil-rich area beside the house she began to garden with a hrious passion that could come only to someone who had grown up in a city. In spite of the burned earth, in spite of the lack of water. Someday there would be a bower of limes, rooms of green light. (p.43)