Is there a name for literature whose body suggests one message that is contradicted by a slapdash ending with an exoteric moral?
oh YES I had forgotten about Clockwork Orange Chpt 21. I hadn't read it that way but maybe I should have. RE your term . . .
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it's always seemed to me intentional? Like, the author is very good in the rest of the work, and with a discordant ending...
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of dubious quality they're trying to undermine the ending's conventional moral while retaining some plausible deniability.
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