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...enjoyable—but rather that he perceives literature not as just a means of entertainment, but as a powerful social force, an attitude that has its roots in the literary criticism of the great 19th-century Russian thinker Vissarion Belinsky—and one that is both the novel??s greatest strength and its ultimate downfall.Ostensibly, “Literary Men” is about three young men, Keith (Gessen’s fictional alter ego), Mark, and Sam—all with some literary or academic pretensions, all extremely reflective and self-obsessed?...
...year for the first time. It was filled with everything from individual issues of “Superman” comic books to little-known, underground comics.But chances are, if you’re the average American, you don’t even know what “graphic novel?? means. The term tends to refer to either bound collections of individual issues of comic books or actual novels written in comic-book format.TIME is hardly alone in assuming that the country is ready for comic book culture. This summer, Hollywood will try to replicate the success...
main thread of the novel??the story...
...read and often pulls off some impressive verbal pyrotechnics, but these are often nullified when Bock gives too much to the reader. When, for example, he cutely projects the future lives of his characters, he deflates the ambiguity that at other times seems essential to the novel??s obsession with replaying particular moments.It seems paradoxical that the video camera, invented to capture movement, is largely a form of isolation in the novel, which suffers when this point is stretched to its thematic conclusion. The characters seem trapped in this sort of stasis themselves. Their quick portraits...
...return to the original hero’s journey.But what makes “Homecoming” such a compelling read is its contestation of the very idea of a Homerian journey. Must a hero’s journey end with a homecoming? Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel??at times to the point of oversaturation—but Schlink’s narrative is also touchingly sympathetic to the characters of this post-World War II odyssey.The novel??s protagonist, Peter Debauer, grew up with his mother in Germany, spending summers at his paternal...