Shakespeare, Goethe, etc. use UNIVERSAL themes.
If the retard who wrote this crap doesn’t know that, he is clueless on the topic he is pretending to write about.
Hmm...I do believe the author knows that,and is using irony...
seems he succeeded...
Hnnnm-
Your ‘author’ is fixated on Catholicism and Spain and uses his own petty fixation to veer far from the title of the article.
The moron who wrote the article lives in the world of Johnny Depp.
That says everything anyone needs to know about him.
More of this is badly needed. Our literature is totally debased. His examples may not be within the general reading of many people but his points are correct.
I read Tirso de Molina in the original when I was majoring in romance languages and I found Don Juan (El Burlador de Sevilla) bombastic and not very comprehensible but then my professor was only concerned that we write essays on it (in Spanish) with all our accents correct and proper grammar. I had no one to help me look at these deeper implications. Especially important is his take on how the original audiences viewed it.
We are soaked in irony, which David Foster Wallace pointed out has a short shelf life and a very narrow world-view. Our writers are trapped in irony, cynicism, sarcasm. Most novels I read (novels of ‘literary fiction’) have tiresome, shallow, mean-spirited characters and really awful plots.
I would rather read YA dystopian novels.
So our ‘literary world’ is trapped in cynicism and can’t find any way out, because anything else would seem ‘sentimental’, or ‘mindless action’.
Or at least their critics would say so.
I read almost nothing of how low our literary fiction has fallen. We need many more articles of this kind.