Edging, the novel
OP, the faggot
>>25237497Replier, the retard
More like pseud the novel. I like Calvino in general but this one really beats you over the head with all the “style” in the same way blood meridian is a little heavy handed with all the mystical biblical allusion mumbo jumbo and landscape descriptions. I like BM but it can be kind of cheese-y and cornpone-y objectively. Too much of a good thing isn’t a good thing
>>25237497First, the best
>>25238132>could it be that i simply dont enjoy this style?>no way, it has to be shallow pseud shit
>>25238136I like other stuff of his I’ve read but this one is pretty pretentious anon
>>25237461Maybe the only good work of (heavy-handed) metaficiton I've ever read
>>25237461What a baiting title. If a traveler what???
>>25238136Also, I never used the word shallow. The book is more overly rich than it is shallow. Just wasn’t my cup of tea. Enjoyed marcovaldo and invisible cities very much thoughever
>>25237461I recall not liking the woman character and being annoyed by her.
>>25238449Whenever an author makes a mysterious female character while at the same time have the protagonist smitten with her, I groan
>>25238136>mccarthy>shallow pseud shitThat much is given
>>25238169>metafiction means it breaks the 4th wall!It is actually a work of pastiche, the metafiction is a part of the pastiche.
>>25238134First < the rest
>>25238995So, we have the obvious pastiches which are inherently meta and the second person sections which are also inherently meta but extended to being pastiche through breaking the fourth wall? At what point does something stop being meta and become metafictional?
>>25239185Correct. The meta becomes metafictional when it is a part of structure, when it takes on an active role in interpretation.
>>25238214accidentally a coca-cola bottle
I am getting to a point in the sotry where I am afraid that the ending will not live up to the mystery and the narrative this book is building. Any anon who has read this book and put my fears to rest or at least have me ready for the disappointment?
>>25239722You are ultimately a plotfag and should get used to disappointment. You are missing a great deal if you are putting that much on the mystery and the narrative.
>>25239728Insecure much?
>>25239764nta but yes /lit/ is full of insecure people.
>>25239764Not at all. The mystery and the narrative are just literary devices and secondary to the point; if you are caught up in them to the point that you are worried they might not deliver, you are missing the point.
>>25239771>The mystery and the narrative are just literary devices and secondary to the pointThe thing that is the most interesting about the book not the main point of it. Wow.
>>25239819>t. never read it
