Just started reading this yesterday. Does the actual narrative ever get as good as the newsreel sections? Does Camera Eye ever not suck?
Haven't read it desu
>>8530539
Then I guess I wasn't asking you
Yes and yes. One of the most readable experimental pieces of /lit I've ever read. There were a few characters that I really looked forward to getting back to. The camera eye is a faux disembodied perspective that exaggerates and dramatizes the free indirect discourse (3rd person POV) of the narrative. It's a very interesting technique of narrative foils. The newsreels is like an in-text new historicist contextualization of the narrative before new historicism was even a thing.
A great and underrated work.
I bought this over the summer because I was trying to read as many doorstoppers as possible, but I haven't read it yet.
>>8530952
I was bumping your thread to promote literature discussion desu
>>8531081
I was bumping my thread too
>>8531100
honest lad