/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12040381]

>Some may seize on it as a postmodern masterpiece, but it is a bloated monster of a book. [...]

>The bloat is a consequence of sheer adipose verbosity and an unremitting condition of moral and intellectual flatulence. [...]

>The abjection of (Gass') hero seems less lived than written. It is an act of ventriloquism: behind the repulsive, potentially fascist narrator stands his critic, the novelist, presumably committed to humane, democratic values. But those values are nowhere intimated in the book, and what emerges is a kind of inadvertent complicity between author and protagonist. The supposedly critical novel becomes an enactment of bad faith

[Anonymous No.12041221]

>>12040381
Hm where is this from though? I still want to read his philosophy dissertation.

[Anonymous No.12041251]

>>12040381
Gass writes for creative people who need to suppress a lot of evil shit to get throughout their day. This reviewer probably isn't one of those people

[Anonymous No.12042056]

>>12040381
>>The bloat
he shouldn't have eaten his food so fast
braaap parapp toot