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>Robert Alterin his review of the book in The New Republic wrote:

>"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."[5]

>> No.15620312

>>15620303
filtered

>> No.15620318

>>15620303
This makes it sound like the kind of bad and overrated book that deserve to be read to see exactly where it goes bad and how it manages to swindle critics into praising it.
Do you concur, OP?

>> No.15620344

>>15620303
>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.
oy vey! it's like anudda shoah!

>> No.15620368

>>15620303
>moral and intellectual flatulence

>author is called "Gass"
>book is called "The Tunnel"

I mean, what did he expect?

>> No.15620381

what is this book about? like could someone tell me the climax of the book (not in terms of plot which I assume is nonexistent) but like some big "event" that happens in it? that would really help me read it...

>> No.15620550

>>15620303
This book is retarded. I understand and respect the implicit mastery of the medium necessary to write this book, but I do not admire it.

>> No.15621549

>>15620381
Guys

>> No.15621571

>>15621549
I read the wikipedia page a couple years ago
This guy is writing a Hitler biography or something similar, it's his magnum opus big book and a lot of work
And he is also digging The Tunnel under his house, and he carries the dirt up and hides it the drawers everywhere

>> No.15621618

>>15620303
what this is fashist book ?

>> No.15621848

>>15621618
perhaps it is fascist, but fashist? certainly not. hahaaaa

>> No.15621901

>>15620303

>if the author holds views that are opposed to those of the narrator he needs to put them in the book. i can't handle a despicable character spouting his views unopposed

what a fucking cuck