it's......................pretty mid.thought it would be much worse but it's just clunky overall
>>24715240I’m 55 pages in and yeah, I enjoy it but I can’t read more than a few pages at a time. There’s not a lot going on which can be fine if the prose is compelling, but it’s just a very dry meandering so far. I want to see where it goes but not blown away yet
>>24715240It's just a book clotted with an assortment of any random esoteric bullshit the author read about and hamfisted in there with no actual grasp on either style or actually compelling substance. It's like a really lame pastiche of a parody of The Recognitions or The Tunnel.
>>24715240>What does the father's death mean for life? Who was this father? Who am I? The son sits in a cell and writes for his life. His life is the novel "Schattenfroh." Nothing can save him, not even his own narrative. And yet, precisely this must be told: that the father is dead, the self is irredeemable, and the history of salvation is a colossal lie.>Whoever reads "Schattenfroh" reads God and the devil, reads love and death, the loneliness and pain and the dead of the air raid on Düren on November 16, 1944, reads ink and white space, reads the writing. "Schattenfroh" is a novel, the world, and life. A thousand desperate pages that don't answer the question of whether life is repairable and whether storytelling can heal us. A thousand manic pages of the impossible farewell to the father: as hermetic as it is powerful, monumental and overwhelming.Lol, imagine reading the above description and not instantly knowing the book will just be 1000 pages of pretentious nonsense.
