Yes, I don't like Vollmann one bit, I'm sure he could be Marty's best pal if he was living in the 1950s.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
how come, you really think he's Heideggerian? that's an interesting take. i like the rifles a lot tho. one of the best failed-expeditions i read. also his first novel, you bright and risen angels i think is a good read, albeit a tad immature.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
He is by all means a cynical pomo neo-luddite, tech-hater, macho-booster, anti-civ brat.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
imo luddites can be saved. but he's not a tech-hater by no means. and he's more of a femm-boy (echoing Duchamp) by macho if you mean the awful book he wrote about prostitute, i agree. it's quite unreadable.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @NegarestaniReza
oh you mean I shouldn't read his erotic stuffs?:(
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Replying to @Trashwomann @NegarestaniReza
there are some short stories he wrote in the style of some Japanese masters. they're good and very much erotic.
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Replying to @lesoiseauxduml @Trashwomann
I was going to say that this is another sign of his macho-ness, idolizing xenophobic, anti-modern, imperial puritans like Mishima.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @Trashwomann
Yes. but Reza, if you look through them with just your own ethics, you can cut down every male writer in the history. which is an honorable mission one must say. Mishima has its own merits. the thing is these figures normally do great with gnostic types, if you know what i mean.
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there's a certain charm around them. that exact charm is also around somebody like Bataille or, if you want to push the wheel all the way through, even around Nietzsche.
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do you hold that 'bad' people cannot be 'good' writers?
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They surely have literally merits, but I think that gnostic charm or aura is dangerous. It's not exclusive to these people, Jack London as a staunch communist was even worse. There is an underlying themes among all these people.
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they psychologize or misappropriate things which are supposed to be impersonal. But there are tons of male writers who remain aloof to their ideologies when writing books or systematically shed their psychologism as they become mature.
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Ex. compare two authors living around the same period in Japan Kyusaku Yumeno and Mishima. For Mishima the Avantgarde literature is just a style that he can put in the service of his psyche and ideology. But for Yumeno, it is the expression of the impersonal forces of modernity.
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