/lit/ - Literature

>>17433693
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>>17433767
>the black mass sequence probably represents the limits of his imagination- decadence was a bourgeois approximation of rejection of bourgeois morality
well fucking put. i love huysmans as a stylist, but gleaning any sort of grander idea from his work (past the oversaturated dinners, women, and architecture) os pretty much useless imo. i was super excited to continue with the durtal series after i finished la bas, but was super underwhlemed. maybe i'm just a pleb who needs some some demon shit though, but without the core subject matter husymans' style just feels totally disjointed and lost. the cathedral seriously bored me to tears. finished it out of principle and went on to read a rebours and en rade which are both stellar imo, a rebours is my favourite huysmans by a mile.
>>17433707
> is there anything unique in fisher’s analysis that isn’t explained in harsher terms by baudrillard?
honestly, at the risk of sounding oversimplistic, fisher's work is just much more palleatable. he also doesnt address simulation to the same extent or in the same way, and his analyses of pop culture are quite different to baudrillard's. baudrillard also doesn't have the exact same notion of hauntology, and i'd say its useful to read fisher just for that. also if you're a britfag you'll get a pleasant mild sickness from his writing.