Have you read The Novel of the Century?https://archive.is/20260831121338/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/books/review/the-disappearers-marlon-james.html
>>25505968You know you don’t have to read anything about gays? It’s pretty easy to do. Next level shit is not whining about things like this either.
>In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. And they live in a world that refuses to accept them.>One night the men are savagely beaten and one of them is killed. As their bodies heal, the survivors begin to face the hatred and contempt that the violence laid bare. Some try to ignore what happened. Others double down on retribution. Some disappear completely.>In this spellbinding novel, Marlon James has written a propulsive crime story that is also a deeply human account of connection and acceptance. Full of fascinating characters, biting humor, and unapologetic sex, The Disappearers is both a thrilling page-turner and a finely etched portrait of queer life. sounds great!
>>25505968Saw this earlier elsewhere. It's going to be extremely embarrassing for the reviewer if it's not exactly as good as he says it is.
A Brief History of Seven killings was about gay rapeBlack Leopard Red Wolf was about gay hyena rapeWhat could this book possibly be about?
>>25505968>gimmicky format>gay blacks: the book >gay black author>immediately outsized praiseTiresome.
>>25506033Cozy, platonic, consensual skinny dipping and bros being bros?
>>25506033Gay murder, apparently.
>>25505978Why is this "the novel of the decade/century" and Hogg isn't? It's basically the same story.
I thought woke was dead, has LGBT really still taking everything from actual art
>>25506054Socialists have talked themselves into believing Trump won't win a 3rd term in 2028, so they're starting to push boundaries again.
>>25505978>hundreds of pages of moaning about how people are big meany poopooheads to [minority group]Riveting stuff, groundbreaking even
The 2010 priesthood of professional fag enablers is going to have a lousy few decades as the average normie stops giving a shit about the short-lived woke surge and probably becomes more vulgarly populist and nationalistImagine still trying to be an NPR-listening NYT "alt lit" vlogger in 2043 while the social contract has mostly disintegrated and there are mainstream white nationalist parties and stuff like Buchanan's anti-zionism, formerly career and life destroying, is now the average view of right wing politicians. It's the little things that would get me, like trying to write one of these pap "This novel about gay crippled lesbians is everything, and here's why" articles when people who force themselves to like that shit have gone from 30% of the population to 3%
>>25505978>murder mystery but with faggot smut>le novel of the century!!1!Do the “people” who write these articles really believe any of the shit they spew? I have my doubts
>>25505968>DEI boosting>identity politics>'prize winning' (rigged industry advertising system)>(((NYT)))No thanks
>>25505978>In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. Though strangers to one another, they share an inescapable truth: All of them are gay. Lol. Decent stack though.
>>25505968>Granny mi gay
>>25506135Over his right shoulder:>SCENE WHERE BOTH LEOPARD AND TRACKERS ARE SLAVES:>THEY WEIGHED THEIR FLESH>COUNTED THEIR TEETH>MEASURERED(sic) THEIR COCKS>MEASURED THEIR BICEPSBuck status?
>>25505978>men into plays/broadway>they are all gayshocking revelation in 2026!
>>25506047Hogg was also declared transgressive and one of the biggest shifts in the genre. Hogg, the novel about child rape and shit eating literally every second page... The author was black and gay so that's ok, though.
>>25506116I pray I live long enough to see this. It's been absolutely insane the last decade or so.
>>25505968Absolute nonsense, I'm writing the greatest literary masterpiece of this century as we speak.
>>25506155bot post
>>25506158Yeah, yeah, whatever, don't say I didn't warn you ahead of time.
>>25505978>deeply humangod how I hate this cliched phrase
>>25505968BATTY BOY NOVEL MON
>>25506054It's coming back big time.
>>25506219AOC just released woke 2.0, prepare ur anus for state pegging
>>25506219yea the arts were never going to experience anything close to a pendulum swing anyway but we are in for some rough very obnoxious years soon
>>25506221>soonYou're already in the state gimp suit, republicans fuck your mouth, democrats fuck your ass, maybe sometimes if your lucky a third party will come in and double penetrate you, the condom they wear is a different color so it's totally different and good, now open ur anus
>>25506230Is this a quote from the OP book? You are supposed to greentext those
>>25505975You know you don't have to defend every single piece of media that you feel aligns with your political beliefs, right? If a book like this wins a prestigeous prize and is lauded as the novel of the century, it obviously raises eyebrows and at that point you can't go with your usual "why do you care?" routine. People who care about literature will obviously care about the fact that standards have fallen off a cliff when it comes to modern "masterpieces" that are praised by academics.
>>25506249Are you a plotfag? All we have to go off to judge its quality is the premise. If we judged works like Ulysses or In Search Of Lost Time solely based on what they are about you'd be lamenting the fall of literature for at least a century
>>25505968>more antiwhite pig shitNo tyFaggots>>25505975Why are you defending and justifying antiwhite bile? Nigger
>>25505978Pig swillAntiwhite horse shit smeared pig swillPeople need to start swinging from trees. All this White erasure is tiresome.
>>25506155I trust you anon. Do it. Make us proud.>>25506128>antiwhite boostingFix'd that cuck lord
>>25506257Maybe ulysses is just trite shite then mate.Yiur nigger faggot worship is pathetic and cucked to Hell. Fix yourself.You'll never be antiwhite enough to be accepted, the Western biospirit within you damns you to Hell so long as you stay in the antiwhite narrative.Quit being a dickless bitch you mongoloid.
>>25506270Man whites are sooo fragile lol
>>25506249>not performatively whining about this is defending itLel
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>Marlon Jamess story of gay experience and murderous homophobia in Jamaica is a maximalists banquet — and the Booker Prize winner's finest book yet.Do the needful, saar, and use ChatGPT , saaar
>>25506221The arts are a libtard circlejerk/money laundering scheme.
>>25506412I guess chuds are left with wageslaving and mortifying their imagination and uglyfy their soul until they break thenNo wonder why they are so maldjusted
>>25505968did anyone ask these fine gentlemen for their consent in associating their image with a novel about a group of gay jamaican men?
>>25506116>This novel about gay crippled lesbians is everything and..."...is exactly what we need right now". Remember when that used to be the tail end of every fifth headline?
>>25506423The picture looks 40-50 years old. They probably took it from stock images thinking it's old enough that no one in it would be identifiable.
>>25506424Yes, and we used to be better off back then.
>>25506421The chuds still have access to the entirety of the western canon, which the left decided to completely abandon in favor of modern slop that aligns with their politics and wasn't written by white men.
>>25506496Looking at posts itt looks like the western canon has already been expunged of everything from the entire xx century so I wonder how much of the rest of the canon they get to keep without getting their panties in a twist
>>25506421chuds should just financial independence retire early max and disregard society
>>25506345bumping this, do it (nigger) faggots
>>25506501Good luck with that. I am sure the next crypto rugpull will favor you this time
>>25506513>cryptoclown stay wagin' buddy
look at an these incels blubbing about a black writer you lost the world, chudsyour time is over
>>25506500What do you mean? No one is expunging anything from the existing western canon. But it's also undeniable that it's extremely unlikely that any modern 21st century piece of literature will ever be added to it. Especially anything after the advent of LLMs. We live in a post-creativity era of society. Anything that's worth reading has already been written.
>>25506520The funny thing is that agitators like you will say this, but you haven't read this "masterpiece" about some fruity Jamaicans either and you don't know a single leftoid in your discord group or anti-fascist subreddit that has read it either. Neither will you or any one of your ilk go and buy this book. I have likely read more books by black writers than you did.
>>25506523>No one is expunging anything from the existing western canonThis faggot here >>25506270 is doing precisely that with Joyce and proust. Most likely he's do the same with kafka and a whole other bunch of canonical writersIf actually confronted about it he would most likely do that with many others further back in timeShakespeare for having sonnets dedicated to a twink? Half of the ancient Greek and roman poets and playwright for being pederasts? Rebelais and cervates for beinf subversive? Everyone from the age of enlightment?
>>25506534I don't need to read itI was written by a black, gay man so it speaks and it speaks trueSomething a (most likely) cis white male like you could never understand
>>25506523>extremely unlikely that any modern 21st century piece of literature will ever be added to itCartarescu is basically a guarantee. Knausgraard most likely. Ferrante is a maybeAlso who is curating this canon if not the intelligentsia you so readily dismiss?
>>25506534>I have likely read more books by black writers than you did.were they good?
>>25506539See, this is the problem with you leftist types, in your mind people have to agree with absolutely everything that you believe and if you deviate on even one thing, you are now the enemy. If someone doesn't like one classic or has an opinion that's different from yours, that doesn't mean they want to change the western canon. If Mark Twain and George Eliot were alive today, they certainly would voice objections about Jane Austen being part of the western canon. Tolstoy hated Shakespeare. Nabokov would have removed Dostojewski etc.
>>25506543>Also who is curating this canon if not the intelligentsia you so readily dismiss?Public consensus. The intelligentsia can name something a "modern classic", but if the book isn't actually good and important, it will be forgotten in no time. No single body of academics can consciously choose what is included in the canon, the canon is the all the works that have stood the test of time and have remained in the public conscience for decades and sometimes centuries or even millennia. Just look at the book in question this thread is about. The intelligentsia calls it a masterpiece and the novel of the century, yet nobody here has read it, regardless of their politics, nobody is going to read it. Nobody will remember it 10 years from now.
>>25506559>Public consensusIn the post creativity LLM age we live in?You are more likely to see heated rivalry, a court of thorn and roses, and the latest jeet ai novel join the canon then than anything of actual quality
>>25505968What a challenging position. I'm disinclined to read it because a hyperbolic recommendation is no recommendation at all, but inclined to read it because of all these fags blowing up about what they assume it's like based on the subject matter. While the marketing is obviously faggy cause-baiting, there's every possibility this is a compelling interrogation of how people interact with REAL disenfranchisement, not the kind the local womyn/browns/queers whine about. I have no reason at this time to suppose it isn't actually goodI don't suppose anyone has dug up any sample section to peruse?In truth though I have too much I'm actually interested in reading, I'll never get to it.
> Narrative about black gay thespians> Novel of the centuryMost century-defining novels have unifying observations of the human condition. It's going to be extremely hard for a novel about catty black gays to do that. Even more so when the book is already selling itself as a hypersexual persecuted queer narrative, a trope that was overdone before the first brick thrown at Stonewall finished it's ascent.Unless it is willing to satirically speak unpopular truths about hypersexuality, insecurity, and superficiality in LGBT spaces, it's going in the neolib shit pile.
The book literally just came out, how is anyone supposed to have read it yet? This thread is just an excuse for a faggy chud tantrum
>>25507036OP here. I haven't read it.
Lmao, this article reads exactly like Claude’s horrible writing style?! Did they AI-generate it? Or is – the more horrifying option – Claude actually trained to aspire to this sort of drivel?
Dwight Garner wrote it and he's just a wet rag in general. He spends the review giving an earnest but unconvincing explanation why its a great novel and he never comes close to defending his claim that it's the best of the decade or century. If you're a publisher on a huge marketing push for your book, you call up the NYT and Garner. The NYT is basically just the promotion wing of the big five. Even other mainstream book review columns disparage the NYT book section for this. But every once in a while, the sacrificial lamb gets slaughtered and the NYT lets a critic pan a book. That just happened with Rachel Cusk, Life of M. That was a genuinely entertaining and insightful review and very very negative. The rest is fluff.
