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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. A two-minute review (opens the original)
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Cormac McCarthy is known for his disturbing imagery and themes. Considering the life of reclusion, poverty, and emotional disturbance he led, one would expect him to write something as profoundly pessimistic as The Road. That is not to say hope is totally absent from this novel, simply that it is a finite, temporary resource, much like everything else the protagonists come across in their journey.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!eAQo!,f_a
Voodoo is fun, actually (opens the original)
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Come peer into the bizarre world of voodoo. Here neither man nor faith may guide you for both are mere pieces on the chess board of treachery.Sitting between detective story and magical realism thriller, Saison de Porcs (or Hog Season) is mysterious from start to finish.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lSkC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3f28a35f-c896-4632-8b
Remedy to Literary Gangrene, 2nd Edition (opens the original)
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0.Purpose is the foundation of every great artist, and even more so every great cause. A purposeless writer generates empty content destined to disappear in time.Thus a manifesto is vital as a solid foundation to my work as a writer lest I dilute my efforts with irrelevant stakes.First, allow me to expose this manifesto’s modalities.Solve:Though the Holy Church is based upon a rock, even the tectonic plates, mothers to our terrestrial world have changed in shape and location over e
The Aesthetics of Melancholy (opens the original)
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I’ve been longing for more exotic literature lately. We merely reinforce our cultural blindspots by analyzing our favorite genres over and over again.And, oh dear, did Jean-Claude Charles’s Manhattan Blues pull me out of my comfort zone.To understand the Haitian-born author’s novel, one requires a bit of context about Charles’s life. Notice how I wrote Haitian-born. Charles (1949-2008) was a black writer that never quite fit in, neither ethnically nor nationally. He never identified with the bla
Dostoevsky's prose is too long-winded for its own good (opens the original)
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At long last! Crime and Punishment is behind us, and with its conclusion I offer you today, wise one, a complete portrait of the Russian masterpiece.The story so farBook five begins with the aftermath of Raskolnikov’s argument with Pyotr Petrovitch and Sonia’s father’s funeral. Raskolnikov is confronted with Porfiry’s final accusations and breaks, following Sonia’s advice. He is arrested and sent to Siberia, where he serves an alleviated sentence of eight years due to his aggravated mental state
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