Posted on 10/02/2008 2:17:59 PM PDT by Zionist Conspirator
He is trying for a grotesque surrealism, like Lautreamont in Maldoror.
The protagonist of The Tin Drum is a child who refuses to grow up and is forever six years old, and he wanders around war-torn East Prussia as a circus performer seducing adult women.
Everything he writes is supposed to be too clever to make sense.
He is trying for a grotesque surrealism, like Lautreamont in Maldoror.
The protagonist of The Tin Drum is a child who refuses to grow up and is forever six years old, and he wanders around war-torn East Prussia as a circus performer seducing adult women.
Everything he writes is supposed to be too clever to make sense.
So . . . what I'm getting from this is that any eels profiled in his works are surrealistic and fantastic and not to be confused with real eels. That is comforting.
BTW, any theories as to which commie will win the Nobel Prize for Literature this year?
I think he inferred or said that the horses were on a transport ship that was sunk not too far from shore. WW II had no such incidents.
Not an answer to your question but I’d hardly call Tennesee Williams a cult figure.
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