It says here you haven't read The Tunnel. Care to explain, anon?

>>9045987
I don't succumb to shitposting on /lit/.

>>9045987
because I'm reading the superior american prose stylist Joseph Mcelroy.

>>9045987
because Dalkey still won't reprint their shit. COME ON GUYS. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, GIMME TAKE FIVE.

>>9045987
I have. It was a waste of my time.

>>9046040
What's it about then?

>>9046078
Pleb answer: Overweight history professor with small penis, abusive father, drunken mother, no real friends except for his shitty and annoying colleagues (except for Herschel, who's ironically a great person but cruelly described by the narrator), etc., etc.

Patrician answer: It's about nothing, it's just a bunch of ramblings

Don't get me wrong, parts of it were written beautifully, in fact some of it was the most well-written stuff I read in my life, but holy shit was it dull work to get to these parts. I may one day read it again and appreciate it better, but reading it the first time was torture and i feel too much work for the scanty pleasure some of the parts gave me.

>>9046040
to the Gass chambers with this one!

>>9046086
>shitty and annoying colleagues
actually, that's prolly too harsh, I think it's clear that for all of Kohler's bitching, it's clear that they're just ordinary people and none of them as inwardly rotten as he is (although Planmantee probably is the King Douche of them all second to Kohler)