Faulkner
perhaps i dont respond to the making yourself a patheitc 'human' charcter, and detailing all the pratfalls and humiliations. i find it seedy. i like the muscular whitman self as hero thing. i can go on but i suspect you lot will just queue up to rain scorn down upon me and im not sure im up for that.
my thoughts diverge so wildly from yours im not even sure my opinion can even mean anything to you.
here are some keywords to refresh your memory, surfaces, seduction, money, power, intrigue, clothes, beautiful cruel women.
i can go on but i suspect you lot will just queue up to rain scorn down upon me and im not sure im up for that.
i think you're rather persuasively eloquent on his shorter stuff Benny, nice one. (i've never read CM. in fact i agonised for about three weeks last year about whether i should see No Country at the cinema before i'd read the book, though eventually succumbing..)
have you read Outer Dark? (as i read a CM fan mention it once and are curious.)
never read faulkner. give me a reccomendation and maybe i'll try it.
i dont need to be 'right' on this and i don't need to convert anyone. i just wanted to explain why those writers don't do anything for me.
I think for all six of the authors mentioned it's certainly true that at times they have a streak of nastiness or cruelty to the little guy (maybe not Pynchon and McCarthy so much) but you could argue that they equally have moments of generosity."ridiculing people for the way the dress, for the eccentricites of their behaviour. its a mindset. dont ask me to define it further. i dont want to. you must know what i mean. and oliver you know exactly where our difference lie. you knwo exactly. becasue i've spelled them out time and time again, most recently i think, in my response to your last attempts to write for the blog. and you know how those difference inform our responses to novellists like bellow. here are some keywords to refresh your memory, surfaces, seduction, money, power, intrigue, clothes, beautiful cruel women"
Likewise, I recognise the cruelty and accept it and see it as just a part of the writing and what they are attempting to portray. Which I suppose is basically everything or at least the human experience in some small way. Whether they succeed is a different point. We've discussed it before but we do keep coming back to this "bigness" of the American novel vs the UK one and, assuming it's true, I don't accept that this bigness is automatically a virtue and someone was to take issue with this aim I think that I would have some sympathy for that position."I suppose also I am maybe a more forgiving reader - those key words you suggest all ring true to me but I don't necessarily see them as problematic."
Id second (third?) Craners' recommendations, Blood Meridian is a truly exceptional book. I went through a McCarthy phase a couple of years back and read through everything.
see also, Hunter S Thompson
Fabulous writer, mind you.
never read faulkner. give me a reccomendation and maybe i'll try it.
i dont need to be 'right' on this and i don't need to convert anyone. i just wanted to explain why those writers don't do anything for me.