Celia Jensen itibaren Imin Darra, Morocco

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2018-09-30 21:40

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Here’s the problem, obviously, with saying what a novel is “about.” This is a novel about a man who, having met a man who makes money as a Steve Martin impersonator, starts to take comfort in impersonating Steven Martin himself as he goes about his everyday life. I have no interest in reading that novel, really. But what a novel is about is never what is really is. Isn't a novel is always communication with some human consciousness or intelligence? The more “aboutness” it has seems to me irrelevant (or even detrimental) to whether it’s any good. So what is the conversation with Out of My Skin like? Affectless, with no depth or specificity to the observations—the stilted, stoned self-obsession of the depressed person comes through in the narration, and if that sounds like a criticism, it isn’t exactly. The voice is a strange brand of laconic which I thought in the middle might be slack, but then I recognized the kind of dread it provoked in me. The narrator is certainly on an island of his own actions, which neither the reader nor the people whom the narrator interacts with have any insight into before they happen. This is both off-putting-—the narrator’s loneliness is not sympathetic—-and transfixing; the narrator’s loneliness is as abject as your own. The book’s drama plays out watching the narrator’s mind chew on itself, though a variety of recurring ideas and objects (mostly plots of old movies). This doesn’t suck I think because we see the same objects/ideas reworked and revisited, and they’re interesting in themselves; and because of the lack of affect. The narrator describes the struggle with crippling self-consciousness in a clinically neutral way, without weak theorizing—-it is as though, every time he recounts some plot of a struggle for an authentic identity in some movie or book, he really, really believes that he only talking about that movie or book, not reflecting on his own crisis. In the end, it resolves as a loveless love story. All in all, there's a brand of honesty here that I think is interesting. I don't know if I would tell other people to read this book, but I will certainly think about it. I think of narrative voice as being produced through a kind of extremity, and there's definitely something extreme about Out of My Skin .

Okuyucu Celia Jensen itibaren Imin Darra, Morocco

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