May 2012
2 posts
My Favorite Thing
My favorite thing is non-narrative genre fiction. Like, stuff that clearly involves a made-up universe with made-up characters and made-up events but doesn’t try to do anything too much like telling me a story about it. ‘Les Chants de Maldoror’ comes to mind as the platonic form here, and also as the prototype of bitterness over non-narrative genre fiction losing out to the...
'I'm Alan Partridge'
Brit-sitcom buffoonery reinterpreted as expression of death drive?*
*I’m not positive, but I think what makes IAP striking is that it produces all the regular shenanigans but via personality flaws rather than via stupidity. Partridge is reasonably intelligent but ends up doing basically what Basil Fawlty or whatever would do in a given situation — but Basil Fawlty or whatever do it...
