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The author of this article is so straightlaced she didn't realize My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a satire...that should tell you everything you need to know.
by DiscourseFan 9mo ago
The author of this article is so straightlaced she didn't realize My Year of Rest and Relaxation is a satire...that should tell you everything you need to know.
- smitty1e 9mo ago> Modern life, according to Moshfegh and many other writers of contemporary literary fiction, has no meaning whatsoever! If the intent is to satirize meaninglessness, then perhaps the protagonist should have joined a satirical cult, like the one in the Illuminatus! Trilogy, proclaiming that Bugs Bunny is God, and Earth is shaped like a carrot. A satirical look at null, it seems, should argue something non-null in the end.
- DiscourseFan 9mo agoArt doesn’t “argue,” it is something open to its own possibilities. Proscribing anything for art kills it.
- smitty1e 9mo agoArt does, too, offer arguments, more or less explicitly.
- neilcj 9mo agoSame with making the title of a Barthes essay a cornerstone of the argument.