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Constellations by Unwalkable Paths: Isobel & Isobel (Adventure Tales as Constellations, or James Oliver Curwood and Hugo Pratt as producers of «objet imaginaires»Second Clipping)
Both Philip Steele of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police (1911) and Isobel: A Romance of the Northern Trail (1913), as they are originally titled, are dramatic and happy ending tales of love and adventure, such as it’s rarely—or maybe never—allowed to meet with in everyday life. Readers, however, are not attracted to the novels solely by the perilous vicissitudes, the hard journeys through the unbounded snowy ranges, or the happy endings, nor are they bewitched only by the two female leading characters, both named Isobel, and both, in their own way, fascinating femme fatales of the Great North. The books are still readable because they are written in a style of popular literature now lost—a writing path nowadays unwalkable, weaving shapes by which readers might trace patterns that might turn into portalling devices.