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Salient Quotes from Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf and other works
“You are here in a school for humour, you are here to learn to laugh. All true humour begins when a man ceases to take himself too serously.” (Pablo to Haller in Steppenwolf.) In the following quotations from Hesse’s writings, … Continue reading
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Steppenwolf Redux: “Eat Your Heart Out!”
A Fantasy Interpretation of Hermann Hesse’s Steppenwolf. “Never a madman Yet never far From ludic laughter A stand-up tragedian I’d still absurdly ask the ultimate Of art and poetry Only the absolute need apply” (Lawrence Ferlinghetti) After my escape from … Continue reading
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Addendum: Some Notes on Glendon Swarthout’s Western Novel, The Homesman, Using Some Comparisons with Charles Portis’ True Grit.
References to The Homesman by Glendon Swarthout (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988) References to True Grit by Charles Portis (New York: Simon and Schuster, c1968) “We pant to see our country and its rule far reaching … what has … Continue reading
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“Well Done, Mr. Portis! But Is It a Masterpiece?”
A Commentary on Charles Portis’s True Grit [complete with spoilers]. Page references attributed to True Grit: a Novel by Charles Portis (New York: Simon and Schuster, c1968) Actual men such as Robert Rogers, Daniel Boone, John Sevier, and David Crocket, … Continue reading
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John McPhee: Word-Rustler
Notes of a logophile on Irons in the Fire and The John McPhee Reader. Let’s get chatoyant! John McPhee was high on life, especially when his interests took him out into nature. It makes me wonder what he thinks of … Continue reading
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Notes on Lauren Groff’s Florida
(References to the paperback edition of Florida (New York: Riverhead Books, 2018) “Black vultures that smell ‘like a thousand rotten corpses’ have brought a Florida neighborhodd to its knees.” (Business Insider, August 17, 2019) Florida by Lauren Groff is storytelling … Continue reading
Part 4: The Uncanny: Metamorphosis and Brutal Aesthetics in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
In-hye’s Slender Thread “Sister . . . all the trees of the world are like brothers and sisters.”[i] “A chorus of living wood, sings to the woman: If your mind were only a slightly greener thing, we’d drown you in … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 Selections, The Vegetarian
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Part 3B: The Uncanny: Metamorphosis and Brutal Aesthetics in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, “Crossing Boundaries”
A Gravely Troubled Man The perspective of the artist is highly self-reflexive. For one, he did not condemn Yeong-hye for her strangeness, though he was unable to truly understand her psychic disposition. Han’s study of the artist is excessively detailed, … Continue reading
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Part 3A: The Uncanny: Metamorphosis and Brutal Aesthetics in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
“Such Uncanny Serenity” It is dark under the lamp. (Korean quote) The natural world can offer us more than the means to survive, on the one hand, or mortal risks to be avoided, on the other: it can offer us … Continue reading
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Part 2: The Uncanny: Metamorphosis and the Brutal Aesthetics of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
In brutal aesthetics, however, the animal mutates variously into a beast, a god, a monster, or a creature.[i] Brutal aesthetics is not nihilistic, it is only the first step. To illuminate, to connect, to transform, to reanimate is the important … Continue reading
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