/lit/ - Literature

How can a man who suffered this much be so happy, /lit/? It's absurd to the point of parody. Take "The Breathless Form" for example
>Chapter 28 talks about how the worst moment of his life was the vacation he and his pregnant wife took to Laos
>A homeless guy caves his wife's head in with a brick on her due date
>She dies and gives birth then and there
>He rushes the baby to the hospital
>Cancer
>It dies
>He has to wait 6 months to take the corpses home to bury them
>Says that he wishes daily he could murder the guy that killed his wife as slowly and horribly as possible
>Very next chapter he interrupts everything because he has to spend 33 pages talking about how great it is that pudding can be shelf stable for years and not even require refrigeration
Is he fucking with us or just autistic?