tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post1293198425910203303..comments2024-01-15T05:26:06.518+00:00Comments on THOUGHTS OF XANADU: Senselessness' narratorKubla Khanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-43325239347167315552008-09-15T13:03:00.000+01:002008-09-15T13:03:00.000+01:00I agree, he is not messing with us,and i wanted re...I agree, he is not messing with us,and i wanted really to say this: that he is better than we, his readers...........he is constantly on edge. i have not been able to make the point properly.<BR/><BR/>he is a morally upright person, to some extent. reading this mess makes him fragile. i want to say that i winced at what i found in some pages.<BR/>and after that, i wanted to ask, what should the reader say or do?<BR/>what do you say?Kubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33019812.post-4372698676542752632008-09-15T00:56:00.000+01:002008-09-15T00:56:00.000+01:00I don't think he is messing with his readers. At t...I don't think he is messing with his readers. At the beginning I was reading it like one of those novels told by "unreliable" narrators and it is indeed possible to read it that way. But one has the realize the importance of the real story and real incidents that happened too and how Moya comments on those using his fiction. I don't there is any literary game going on here. That would be morally and artistically irresponsible. <BR/><BR/>I found those farcical sex scenes baffling initially but I think they work to show how he is trying to maintain his own self (his "sense") from the voices of the testimonies. The novel also captures what being in a country with such a violent and traumatic past means (there are far too many places like that in the world) when one keeps hearing those "voices"...how does one resist such senselessness?Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.com