/lit/ - Literature

desu I haven't read the tunnel but ommensetter's luck is so good I'm willing to give Gass my benefit of the doubt

before diving in, i would get at least a little familiar with his influences. Gass is very very academic and those writers he adores provide a lot of insight into the kind of writing he's aiming towards.

Of those writers i can remember him shilling i especially remember Gertrude Stein (Gass is all about the 'sentence' as the building block of prose) as well as Rilke (Gass loves his 'simultaneity' that becomes so important in the modernism to follow)

>>9713735
Mind going a little more in-depth or linking a paper/essay on the topic? You piqued my interest, I know next to nothing about Gass as an author or an academic "object", what with being Yuropoor and all.

Bump

thicc Gassy braps

Sick. Spiteful. Unattractive. A great book.

The Tampax man?

>>9714478
>unattractive
???

The whole joke is it's beautiful but it's about happily killing jews and even cannibalizing them... He even says in the book that you can make anything go down easy if you cover it in sugar.

Also, where can I download the audiobook??

>>9713731
one of the most depressing things I have ever read, and a much more self-conscious and thought-out work that /lit/ gives credit. There is a point to Gass's style, which although beautiful is often mistaken to be meaningless fluff. This book expertly documents the terrifying depths that the everyday soul can fall to and must work against

>>9714478
why are u roleplaying as nabokov?

>>9715031
>depressing
Haha you didn't finish it you didn't finish it you didn't finish it

>>9715993
I could see that the book could be thought of as depressing, even if you finished it. Indeed, some of the stuff in it is pretty dark, although I also saw some of it as darkly comical. I don't see how the ending makes the book any less depressing.

Came here for Gass memes, step it up guys!

>>9716832
It stops being sad about halfway. The first part is brutal, sure, but it seriously lightens up... And the ending with his wife is hilarious.

>>9715017
>The Tunnel Audiobook
my god

>>9715017
You're better off just skipping out on books like The Tunnel if you're thinking about listening to them. Audiobooks are for Stephen King and John Green, not novels where the text itself plays a role in the atmosphere.