Baylor's WRIT 340

In the book Hav by Jan Morris, we follow the author's imagination to a foreign city called Hav.  The city seems to be a mix of all civilizations, having Greek ruins in the city center, Russian domed-architecture, several common languages and a call to prayer throughout the day. It's difficult to access, which has helped preserve all of its history and seems like a one-of-a-kind city. It's easy to get lost in the writing once you realize there is little plot development in Hav. Morris uses elaborate and colorful English to paint a picture of the lost city of Hav, which I found at times to be distracting while I was still trying to figure out the book's purpose. We follow the author as she meets many people throughout the city, like the members of the Athenaeum - an intellectual club that met to discuss any subject. Morris's words are so descriptive - hearing tales of the Russian politicians who visited, the Chinese influence, and the British Hav - and you get to know...

For my second book I am reading Jan Morris's Hav , a novel following a protagonist through her travels to a lost city called Hav. I thought I'd read this because I haven't read a mysterious book in a few years and the description on the current issues website we were to pick from sounded enticing.  The book starts by following the protagonist to a place that sounds like it used to be a world-class city and has since deteriorated. The protagonist meets a man in a Fiat that takes her to board a train - all of which seems connected as do scenes from a dream. As the protagonist arrives in the city, we the readers visualize Hav as a declining metropolis; the first person the protagonist meets shares how the Prince of Austria, Bismarck, Nijinsky, and Hitler have all visited Hav. Hav must be in the Islamic part of the world because we hear the sounds of the call to prayer in the morning and hear the protagonists description of minarets in the skyline. The protagonist introduces he...

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