/lit/ - Literature

>mfw The Road was a christian parable

>>1695257
What do you think of McCarthy D&E?

>mfw High Fidelty is about me.

>mfw Blood Meridian is a gnostic tragedy

>mfw Snape killed Dumbledore
>mfw Wilson shot and kill Gatsby then himself
>mfw Godot never comes
>mfw Dr Jekyll is Mr Hyde
>mfw the Pope was illuminati
>mfw Jesus married
>mfw Gregor Samsa dies after turning into a bug
>mfw the Green Knight doesn't really decapitate Sir Gawain
>mfw Holden almost gets molested by his teacher and his sister becomes the 'Catcher in the Rye' who saves him
>mfw Alex grows up and doesn't like Ultraviolence anymore
>mfw at the end of the novella he's awaiting execution for killing that Arab
>mfw Frankenstein dies and the monster says he's going to kill himself
>mfw The Double takes his place at the end as he's taken to a mental asylum
>mfw Gollum falls into the lava with the ring and destroys it
>mfw Josef K never faces trial and gets murdered
>mfw the Man dies and the Boy goes off with another family
>mfw Tyler Durden is the narrator all along
>mfw he eats the green eggs and ham
>mfw he wins the victory over himself and truly loves Big Brother

>>1695279
>mfw i eat sandwiches for Lunch

>>1695284
Big Brother is watching us.

>>1695259
Haven't read enough of him to have a decent view. But from what I have, and from what criticism I have heard; I'm not yet convinced. Two things he's been lauded for that I've taken issue with; the mythopoetic language and what they call his rhetorical self-refence. In The Road, the mythopoetic language came across to me as jarring, as it did with other people I read the book with. It seems to me that if you are going to use such language, a)you can do it better, b)do it all the time or contrast it well enough. As far as The Road is concerned, I don't think he pulls it off as well as is said. It seemed to be to be either a work of boring gritty realism, or a mytho-poetic fairytale. Neither of them get done very well, or consistently well anyway, in the novel, as far as I am concerned. maybe he does it better elsewhere. He's been labelled as following a melvillean tradition of drawing attention to a text's status as rhetoric through the writing, and I assume this is what amounts to all the complaints over shitty grammar etc. I'm not convinced on the whole over the value of such literary devices. They didn't make me think about any such thing, they just disrupted my experience. I think this can be done better.

>>1695304
I love you

>>1695304
>>1695304
Mythopoetic. Good word for him
Anyway, Believe or deny the hype at your own inclination, but I think Blood Meridian is definitely more consistent with the style and worth a read. Don't be too quick to believe
>>1695279 though.