TRTR Which one is not like the other one?

[Mark Kohut]

Richard writes very interestingly: 
I don't think that TR is either a social or a political novel.  Think it's a 
"metaphysical romance" with a psychotherapeutic overlay.  It's a book about the 
ways in which strong personalities make weak choices.  Put another way, it's a 
meditation on the presumption that  "Human kind cannot bear very much reality."
 
will only add that romances that work and live do illumine reality, some of 
which is social....Moby Dick, to go somewhere else,
has allegorical, American society resonances up the wazoo...........
 
That thematic line is from Eliot, as you surely know...a Gaddis influencer up 
the wazoo...........


On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

1955  The Recognitions...massive, character-filled novel savaging the
>phoniness of Americans in their money-conscious society, because of
>such money/success is all ethos.......
>
>1957 Atlas Shrugged   ...Massive, cardboard character-filled novel savaging
>the phoniness of American society because it would not admit that making
>money is everything................
>
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