Has anyone else noticed how jewish writers have a very distinctive writing style in which they always emphasize judaism and being jewish?Excluding works in which race or religion are the focus, I've noticed their literary style possess a composition that makes references to their customs, lifestyle and religion very noticeable. Rather than being a casual or sly mention, the narrative shifts and the comment becomes its center in order to make it stand out, as if to show it off or tell the reader how exotic it is. I've seen it also happens in their nonfiction works too, to the point they quote and divulge other jewish figures or works over non-jewish ones.I think is particularly jarring when the author promotes atheism or mocks other religions or races.
>>25332428Not particularly, no. Zweig (last a Jewish author I read) if anything sounds marginally more fond of Christianity than Judaism (he was neither, religiously speaking). Obviously Jewish people are going to integrate their background into their writing but I haven't noticed anything like what you're describing as a trend.
>>25332428The only jewish author I've read is Kafka.
>>25332453You must be retarded or a blatant liar, that's the only explanation.
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>>25332491Meant to reply to the OP?
Yes one of the most obvious traits of Jews is how they see themselves as eternal outsiders. A normal race sees itself as the default and inhabiting a country which is the center of the world; Jews invert this and see themselves as the exception, and possess a very snide pride in being irregular.
>>25332428Eh Joseph Roth wrote an excellent novel The Radetzky March where I’m pretty sure he didn’t mention being Jewish even once
>>25332453Twenty-Four Hours in the Life of a Woman literally has a whole chapter dedicated to describing the beauty of a synagogue and the whole novel is about a woman being oppressed by Christianity.>Obviously Jewish people are going to integrate their background into their writingThe way they do it is different from normal people. Even in slop by female Asian diaspora, the race or religious element is an underlying element, rather than something that is brought out to catch the eye of the reader.Let's consider a novel by a Christian or Catholic writer, say Brideshead Revisited. The story revolves around the relationship between Charles Ryder and the Anglo-Catholic family, the Flytes. Catholicism is an underlying element because it shapes the Flytes as characters. It's hanging there as a ghost that shows up now and them, but is never brought inadvertently. Compared to that, what jewish writers do is pull judaism out of nowhere and mention of how special it is, as if it was a display in a glass case. It rarely serves as a element to the story, it serves as an addition that is brought to show off.
>>25332428I've never noticed
>>25332628> Even in slop by female Asian diaspora, the race or religious element is an underlying element, rather than something that is brought out to catch the eye of the readerLmfao no. Your obsession with Jews is making you retarded.
White authors write about being white, this is the board that worships Blood Meridian. Jews are just so honest and forthcoming that they don't beat around the bush when promoting their background, and do so explicitously.
>>25332428Most Jewish authors I’ve read never mention Judaism once.
>>25334831No jewish author ever wrote a single work that ultimately wasn't an allegory for their jewishness or the jewish condition in general. Dealing with the human condition as the human condition is just...beyond them, always has been. Hence why their cultural products are so painfully provincial despite their nominal cosmopolitanism.>>25332453Zweig is like the absolute worst example that you could have brought up if you wanted to riposte what OP was saying.
>>25332428Meds
>>25332428It's quite noticeable
>>25332428For most of modern history, the Jews have been a foreign people who lived among Europeans, while almost every other people in the world only lived amongst themselves. Another exception is American blacks, which is why most of their literature also has to do with race and "the negro spirit." American blacks at least have their religion in common with the rest of the country, and them being a lower class minority were somewhat led to assimilate with the rest of the country's culture by the upper class at one point. Jews on the other hand made it a priority to stay as separate as possible, kept their own religion, even inbred to prevent from dying out, and as they held influential positions in the countries they resided, they couldn't be pushed to assimilate. Thus "jewishness" and its differentiation from other peoples is an inseparable part of their culture and what they write about.There's only a reason to write about the uniqueness of your people if you live among others to compare to. It's why this is also the case in Nazi literature and literature about the American South as >>25333975 mentions. Today in our mutt society you see "literature" from every kind of people making it about their race, because when your society isn't homogeneous, you have differences to write about, simple as.
>>25332453Zweig literally does what OP is talking about when he describes the crippled girls dad's former life as a persecuted jew suffering "like the rest of that eternally suffering race" (paraphrased) in Beware of Pity
>>25334943OP says "always", specifically.
