/lit/ - Literature

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>using books as stepping stones

>Rooney says she seeks to write a Marxist novel—that Marxism is the analytical framework through which she understands the world—but that she’s not sure her novels in fact accomplish that. Her characters read and cite theories of capitalism. Does that make her novels Marxist? Her novels are constituted by ambivalent characters who prioritize the stakes of the social collective over the individual. Does that make them Marxist? The dissonance between the political ambitions of Rooney’s novels and their domestic interpersonal content might suggest that these novels ultimately fail to give any kind of critique of life under global capitalism. After reading a Rooney novel, I don’t necessarily want to instigate a mass uprising. But that her books explicitly broach these questions—that they even demand such answers from the novel form itself—makes them more conceptually dynamic than most contemporary fiction. That Rooney mediates these philosophical questions through questions of gender and love, codependency and care, renders her political critique as not just intellectually but emotionally complex as well.

Is there’s any fictional books that the protagonist is a serial killer, beside American Psycho or the Dexter series.