Being in a position where you even have the luxury of caring about how you're seen defeats the point of the entire exercise. It's more related to the sensation of dwelling bodily in the spiritual abyss most people desperately attempt to avoid or ignore as they go about their daily lives and making a point of not turning away.
I really like the way you phrased this and it's absolutely one of major reasons why people are drawn to disturbing literature and extreme horror books. I think this reason falls nicely under "defined understanding" I was noting in my post since there are plenty of other reasons on why people are drawn to the works and their dark subjects. Though that full post is more of an attack on the nature of edgelordness after one two many sips from bottled spirits.
These all seem quite interesting
I remember reading Punpun with /a/ as it was being serialized. A microcosm of everything worth hating about humanity.
Everville is definitely worth the read, but it is a direct sequel to his novel The Great and Secret Show, so if you haven't read that yet I'd suggest starting there.
It's also really funny. It sort of boomerangs between being utterly horrifying and hilarious.
Thanks!
I have yet to read Naked Lunch but I have a feeling it will remind me of my recent read, Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen. Hilariously absurd and deeply disturbing seem to be the ever present oscillation of horror's limits. It is also quite funny how often these type of books feature homosexuality as it thins the veneer of accpetncence with extreme display's of the perversion that flows within such disoriented individuals.
Naked Lunch goes way beyond mere homosexuality.
Funnily enough the capacity for competent writing was one of the most infuriating aspects of Assisted Living. The book is filled with a litany of literary, philosophical, religious, and historical references littered in between militantly homosexual vulgarity. I got a general sense between the references and a few sections that the author could write proper prose if he preferred. The idiosyncratic nature of the language is also apparently magnified by it's Swedish origins. The author has other untranslated works but it seems that from translated reviews it's more of the same so maybe he's just well read.
Going by the wikipedo synopsis it definitely sounds like Bazterrica had being reading Dolcettish type cannibalism porn fiction and decided to add more plot to it.
I've actually tried on and off over the years to get one of his books without success. This is probably a good thing, as I suspect that owning something of his is enough to put you on some kind of list.
Eh, it’s a short fun read. It’s nothing that you don’t expect from a ‘bUT what iF we treat humans JUST like our MEAT’ shtick. But I do hope there to be better novels about the theme. I don’t need a vegan preaching how apathetic we are towards nature. Even Matthew Stokoe’s “Cows” got me thinking about an inherent, consumerist perversion more than Tender is the Flesh does. Given though, it’s also in the genre of extreme horror where everyone tries to out-gross each other.
I don't know about books, but you can easily find the audio albums* he did, like the infamous Buyer's Market. It's the sort of stuff you listen to only once.
Yeah, I'm not listening to those. It's one thing reading prose, actually seeing/hearing the victims puts me in their place, which is...upsetting, to put it mildly.
