The Domain of the Game, The Domain of the Struggle
There is a version of the Annabelle poem from Atomised, preceded by a chunk of prose in which we go back to Annabelle as a younger woman, just off to university, moved on from her first love. ‘Faced with a choice between dawn and dusk, Annabelle watched her youth slipping faintly through the curtains.’ Here we’re transcending the symbol of feminine beauty and goodness, and into something universal. The corridor in the halls of residence. The metallic taste in the throat and tongue. The starless dusk. The corridor between disillusionment and hope. Between one life and the next.
Max Dunbar reviews Michel Houellebecq‘s The Art of Struggle.
3:AM Cult Hero: George Ade
By Robert O’Connor. George Ade (from The Wit and Humor of America edited by Marshall P. Wilder) American Literature loves the tragic hero. Holden Caufield, Captain Ahab and Gatsby all struggle against the odds to live their own lives. They have flaws within them that undo them by the end, but their singular determination have […]