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This is the most insufferable thing I've ever read in my entire life. This reads like chocolate cake with chocolate icing drizzled in chocolate syrup for smug i
by boredumb 4y ago
This is the most insufferable thing I've ever read in my entire life. This reads like chocolate cake with chocolate icing drizzled in chocolate syrup for smug individuals to read from the backseat of a private car service. The amount of faux insights and pop politic buzzwords while ending this with questions of whether bambi is a parable for jewish existence is astonishing and I found myself wondering if this was a parody paper submitted to the New Yorker to trick an editor into publishing it.
- nemo44x 4y agoDid you even read it or finish it? It explicitly makes the case it is NOT a parable for Jews, as it is often interpreted, but rather the human condition in general. From the article: "“Bambi” is not a parable about the plight of the Jews, but Salten sometimes regards the plight of the Jews as a parable about the human condition. The omnipresence and inevitability of danger, the need to act for oneself and seize control of one’s fate, the threat posed by intimates and strangers alike: this is Salten’s assessment of our existence." That was the case the author was building up to the entire time. To each their own, but I thought it was an incredibly well written article.
- s1artibartfast 4y agowelcome to the newyorker.