Sunday, August 18, 2024

Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon

 

Just over three hundred pages of a novelist realizing his story contained several stories, or that his several stories were all the same. Written as though "fragmented" and "kaleidoscopic" are the same thing, with characters who are all dragged through the events of their stories by the actions of others, with no climax and bloody little resolution. Shocking how the "brilliant" literary fiction of fifteen years ago completely fails to hold up--almost as though "literary" were just a lie, not even a genre like all the others.

at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

The Ballad of Perilous Graves by Alex Jennings

  This really just flat didn't work for me. I thought it was going to something other than it was, I guess. I should have taken a closer...

  • Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay
      A neat little Horror novel (big shock on the genre, there, I'm sure) that plays some interesting games with PTSD and identity, with ma...
  • America Fantastica by Tim O'Brien
      Reading this novel reminded me a good deal of reading Processed Cheese . America Fantastica is more subtle, and the points it's makin...
  • All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
      Oh, gawds, this novel starts as a bit of a mess and wraps up like someone who read too much Naturalistic fiction and decided to go with no...