/lit/ - Literature

>>18842720
wish there was a wordsworth editions version

hehehe this kinda radiates the wordsworth classics energy.

Is Blood Meridian worth a read from an indigenous perspective? I’ve been wanting to read this book, but no one can tell me anything about it, and I haven’t met any native people who have read the book to tell me. As a reader I already get unsolicited violence & weird fetishy stuff in what I read all the time (I mean take Richard Brautigan for example, he uses “savage indians” as descriptive tools ever other chapter he writes) and I don’t know if I want to knowingly get into yet another book that uses excessive violence against native bodies. I do however love Joseph Conrad’s prose and while looking for more authors like him, I keep getting recommended this book. Can you tell me if the violence is condoned? Are the natives just stereotype savages as usual in westerns or actually hold up?