/lit/ - Literature

Man comes home and finds his friend sleeping with his wife, then kills his friend, wife says "idiot, idiot, idiot! this way you will lose all your friends"

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The oldest kind of story, that of two brothers. In the tradition of Cain and Able, Gilgamesh and Enkidu, Osiris and Set.

Bruno represents the kind of mimetic desire. His constantly striving for new sexual exploits to compete with the people around him speak, perhaps, to the most primal form of mimetic desire. In the form of his racist outbursts, we see this anguish erupt as the scapegoat mechanism. We also see how he is, in his youth, the very victim of this exact mechanism which he then continues.

Micheal is more withdrawn, a failure socially because he is incapable of understanding these hidden and unspoken social rules. He sets out to create a new race of people, one free from mimetic desire and the principles of sacrifice.

In reading this book, I was quite reminded of every other book I've ever read.