/lit/ - Literature

>A Tale of Two Cities literally ends with a devoted no-nonsense English nanny who refused to learn French, suplexing a Parisian slum women hell bent on massacring entire families in cold blood for the crimes of a previous generation
Dickens was a mad man

>In The Atlantic, Garth Greenwell suggested that A Little Life is “the long-awaited gay novel”: “It engages with aesthetic modes long coded as queer: melodrama, sentimental fiction, grand opera. By violating the canons of current literary taste, by embracing melodrama and exaggeration and sentiment, it can access emotional truth denied more modest means of expression.”[10]

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>conceptually self-defeating aesthetics
what does this even mean