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>An ailing patriarch recounts a string of unsolved crimes committed during his freshman year of college; the events portray an ongoing period of political disquiet in an alternate America, viewed through the lens of an elaborate criminal conspiracy.
>transgressive fiction, experimental memoir, altermodern neo-picaresque, literary novel, hysterical realism
>>9458669
why would the old man be talking about his freshman year of college while he's on his deathbed?
wouldn't he have some more general, more helpful things to discuss about his life that dont simply apply to a young man in college (presumably you?)
or is his son about to enter school or something?
that would make sense but might also be kinda lame and make the man seem kinda beige/unbright and therefore not someone of particular interest as a focal character?
>>9458669
Top marks for the Dream of Tartini picture.
>Guy tells a joke
>Joke literally lasts for all eternity
>It's an infinite jest
>>9458683
Plotwise, the investigation has made its first discovery in 20+ years, which prompts a couple of people to come forward, including one of his superiors trying to get out of life imprisonment. The story isn't about college advice. If anything he pushes a very anti-formal education stance.
>>9458683
The crimes themselves were also very high profile for the small towns they occur in. Some of them are unsolved murders/missing persons that were always assumed to be tied to something else, which he confirms, having no more reason to stay silent.
>>9458947
Thanks
>>9459145
I think this is the type of work that will make people shit on academia. anti-formal education people already ruined it and now they are banning any last bit of good it has
>>9458669
>Old scribe with a history of violent crime in a fantasy setting is shipwrecked and stranded in a kingdom in the process of collapsing, much like Rome under Visigoth invasion.
>Must survive in the foreign land while dealing with withdrawal from his rehabilitation drugs, affecting his perception of reality
>loneliness, relationships, uninhibited freedom, return to virtue, fantasy versus reality, agency
>>9458947
best recording hands down = Andrew Manze's.
read Delalande's account of meeting Tartini if you are into that stuff. (god knows I was)
>>9458669
>Man attempts suicide
>Fails, because he is not a man.
>Not-man attempts suicide
>Succeeds
It's about Democracy.