My German Brother delivers a tragic account of a man who outsources his sense of self and uses literature as a social tool rather than as a form of human discovery.
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In the process of communicating the visual images of Thornton’s film, Vi Khi Nao abstracts time from an analog, continuous flow to digital breaths which require mental recalibration at every second.
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The pastoral is dying, or dead, and Trout Fishing in America is the swan song Brautigan writes for an America in the midst of a transition to an automatized, commodified, pop culture-driven society.
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When the narrator loses his observational distance and becomes an interacting party in the events at the temple, so too does Beauman in his authorship. So too do I in my criticism.
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Read at face value, Valley of the Dolls is all pulp, a novel-length gossip column detailing the lives of women caught up in the artifice of Broadway and Hollywood. However, read at face value, we are all pulp too.
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Regardless of how much data we have accumulated on an individual, how many conversations are had, how many moments are shared, we can never truly know another person.
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