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I enjoyed the whole thread that spawned off this comment. Back in the 90s I took a literature course that did the reverse angle. With a gothic theme, we compare
by saltcured 3y ago
I enjoyed the whole thread that spawned off this comment. Back in the 90s I took a literature course that did the reverse angle. With a gothic theme, we compared Frankenstein and Neuromancer. And in between, I believe we also sampled Sigmund Freud and E.A. Poe.
- hotnfresh 3y agoI think noir when I think about Neuromancer—the kinda-scumbag protagonist down on his luck, drawn not-wholly-willingly into a bigger plot and with various personal goals factoring in and intertwined with it; the prose style; the larger plot ultimately kinda coming to nothing (“forget it, Jake, it’s Chinatown”), et c. I’ll have to read it with gothic literature in mind, next time.
- saltcured 3y agoLook more to the environments and secondary characters instead of just the protagonist. The English gothic horror is strong in the Tessier-Ashpool clan and the whole orbital scene. But as I recall, we also sought goth in other places and characters. The whole metaverse with AI running amok, and the Corto/Armitage character being almost a reverse Frankenstein's monster, for example.