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>Novel is written entirely in first person
>Narrator happens to have a lot in common with the author
>The novel is the narrator expressing his opinion on everything from his country's government to the opposite sex
>War bad. Rich evil.
>Narrator has Oedipus complex.

>> No.16987330

A Portrait of the 1982 Janine as the American Psycho Lolita

>> No.16987528

What is it about modernity that makes all of us thing are personal bullshit is worth writing about?
"Daddy wasn't there" "Mommy was mean"
Oh boo fucking who.

>> No.16987636

>>16987528
Anyone else remember when Jung was recommending people to have artistic pursuits as an expression of their psychic content but not under any means to think that gives it a real artistic value separate from yourself. He stressed that latter part quite a lot, because he knew how many bad writers would pop up when free reign was given to the mind.

>> No.16987660

>>16987528
>"Daddy wasn't there" "Mommy was mean"
This is what the Odyssey is about

>> No.16987667

>>16987287
Is that every single Phillip Roth book ever you're talking about?

>> No.16987682

>>16987636
Holy fuck that's already how I do my shitty painting. And he's right, remembering your art only matters to you makes it way more meaningful and therapeutic

>> No.16987769

>>16987287
I've never read a novel that matches this description. Is this what nonreaders think literature is like?

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>>16987287
>author makes his self-insert an impoverished retard with no friends
>makes the protagonist a fat cuckold who likes smelling shit and gets sissy hypnotized by himself until he gets over his dead son

>> No.16988074

>>16987287
A reminder that the novel, with few exceptions, is the lowest, most degenerate form of literary art

>>16987660
Telemachus wasn't a self-insert

>> No.16988096

>>16987287

So you hate honesty? Is this sort of novel too real for you? You want Thanos to collect the Infinity Stones and blow up the Death Star or something?

>> No.16988146

eh, i'd rather read about what the writer want to write than having mediocre authors grasping for higher content that they're obviously unprepared to handle. thats how you get those netflix series with shoved in diversity characters and shit