Word: grotesquesness
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Whenever a young Bradbury hero appears, a sideshow of grotesques cannot be far away. It is peopled by a "canary lady" who never leaves her empty birdcages, an enormously fat opera singer, a blind black man with at least seven senses, and Mr. Shapeshade, the owner of an obsolete cinema...
With The Obscene Bird of Night (1973), his fourth book, Chilean Author José Donoso joined the front ranks of South American fabulists. His sprawling novel not only housed more grotesques than a whole rack of Gothic thrillers; it also offered a narrator who pretended to be a deaf-mute...
For years now, the demographics of the American short story have been moving upscale. The line of Hemingway drifters and Flannery O'Connor grotesques seems to be dying out. Characters rarely worry any more about finding God or their next meal. They are likely instead to be well educated...
Vidal recycles grotesques reminiscent of Myra Breckinridge. He also programs a lot of cultural software: the racially balanced TV news team, the English butler from Duluth's elegant Garfield Heights section who asks a visitor, "Whom shall I say is calling she?" and the ludicrous prose of costume romance...
The technique is simple: take three extraordinary people, put them together in a room, and watch them go at one another. Jean Paul Sartre did something along these lines in No Exit. But in No Exit, the room was hell;here the room is sanctuary. Hell waits outside; the streets...