There’s a lot of self-recognition (or -reference) in post-modernism writing. This self-recognition starts out with the author’s ability to actually write down things that most people have thought about on a subconscious level, or have thought about but were unable to synthesize into words. This is where experience becomes fuzzy: we are experiencing what this witty individual (character) is experiencing, but in a way that draws from our own experience… With 03 I find myself understanding much of the (often times incredibly jumpy and difficult!) content through similar experiences that I’ve had, like similar feelings and emotions evoked through songs written by The Smiths or Joy Division, or the over-analysis of love at a time when I was also in 12th grade… I feel very mawkish about all this stuff and is something I can identify with especially because I think that the (I wanna say memoir) novella was written perhaps after a level of maturity was reached to actually attempt to describe what the hell is going on in Our heads (after the experience (or monologue) described (I.E. NOW).
This is what I’m trying to say: is anyone else identifying with this book? Is anyone else feeling juvenile and mawkish? Is anyone not digging the book because they haven’t experienced thoughts like these (maybe you girls (probably I am most interested in your opinion girls…)?
Bottom line: 55 pages in and it’s kicking my butt…
omg the last 30 pages rule
ReplyDeleteIt's pretty solid all over, but the last 30 definitely hammer it home.
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