/lit/ - Literature

I kind of like the cover you posted a lot better than mine (pic related).

Anyways... I liked the tenth chapter of this book a lot. I got kind of bored midway through, when it seemed like not very originally written prose and the consul disappeared for a whole chapter -- but the tenth really blow me away right from the first paragraph, which is probably one of the most tragic ones in the whole book.

I also liked the end a lot. Disregarding the first chapter, I still felt the consul was gonna die at the end, but when he doesn't suicide, like one might expect, it reminds me of Kafka a lot, where the character's unconsciousness's start to shape their fates, however conscious they try to go in the opposite direction. It's a grotesque antithesis to the Goethe quotation Lowry puts at the start of the novel.