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What does it mean that the best novel of postwar fiction takes place in the 19th century?

>> No.11457442

>>11457413
nothing, it's a fucking setting.

>> No.11457453

>>11457442
you don't think it has anything to do with the fact that it is really hard to write in an environment like the one most normal people have been living in for the past 60-70 years?

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>>11457453
Not really, american psycho was about the 80's and it was a very good book

>> No.11457480

>>11457413
but anon IJ was set in the 20th century

>> No.11457484

>>11457480
Oof almost

>> No.11457507

>>11457460
not even close to being in the same category as blood meridian

>> No.11457519

we don't want to be here

>> No.11457523

>>11457507
Never said it was, but saying that because a classic is not set in the same period as the one it was made in is dumb. this anon >>11457480 has a point where IJ is a modern classic set in a modern time.

>> No.11457550

>>11457523
IJ is actually set in the future and is therefore able to make things unreal enough. Same goes for Pynchon who writes in different eras and somewhat less for DeLillo, even though he had to aestheticize his prose to the degree that all that remains in his reality is atmosphere.

>> No.11457593

I want to read a version of 1984 set in the actual 1980s with neon and synth and cocain and big hair and stuff.

>> No.11457611

>>11457413
>takes place in the 19th century?
W-ait, what? That makes so much sense. How the fuck did I miss that?

>> No.11457612

>>11457519
This.

>> No.11457627

>>11457611
it takes place near the death of the wild west and the epilogue is the building of a fences, taming the land once and for all.

>> No.11457636

>>11457413
It doesnt mean anything. It's literally Nihilism the Book

>> No.11457668

>>11457611
you read it not even knowing what a Western is?

>> No.11457676

>>11457636
well i wouldn't say that
I think the book shows that violence s a necessity for civilization, and that no matter where you go there is war. The scale of war can vary and even the purpose, but the defining feature is the conflict of wills with the strongest will being the victor. then it talks war being god and gets pretty edgy

>> No.11457732

>>11457413
It means that the modern world is too horrific to confront directly and must be approached through the comforting metaphor of historicity. You can read on because you can reserve that little booth in the corner and say, well we're not like that anymore. But matters are so much worse.

>> No.11457755

>DUDE SODOMY AND SAGEBRUSH LMAO
>Angl*s think this is in any way good