/lit/ - Literature

>>5217521
i am very interested in this, and i'm very glad I learned that being meta is optimally more than just confusing fuckery.

I decided the crossing was 2deep4me as soon as the story about the guy who sat under the bell started. Should probably revisit it.

It's a bit of a twist on the classic great-gatsby type alienation-from-the-self-because-of-society thing. The twist involving horrible violence, a dab of meta, and a sense of freedom with the medium.

One of the most interesting things about it is it's introduced early on that Bateman hallucinates, and the contradictions that have racked up by the end show that hallucination was involved in a lot of the narrative. This is almost like fiction on two different levels. On top of it having no impact on our reality, we have no way of knowing how much impact it has in the reality of the fiction itself. However, the only reality of the novel as we know it is Bateman's narrative, so in a sense it points out the weirdness of thinking there are things that Bateman is getting "wrong" or "right" when we'll never know what "really" happened, because none of this "really" happened, because it's a fictional story.