/lit/ - Literature

>>1690820
Tuymansfist.jpg

>>1444875
Wow, I don't know really. I don't have a copy handy so I can't refresh myself. Ely is the one that was near blind, pretty close to the same time they encountered the roasting fire isn't he? I have to admit I kind of gelled into reading the book as more or less episodic. To me the characters didn't become any more or less involved past seventy pages. The only interesting or noticeable character development that I saw change was the fathers internal monologue with and dreams of his wife.

I'm from the standpoint that the book is a pessimistic one, the growth of the characters (or even that "flame" if you will) are dwarfed under the futility of global extinction. So if he (Eli) says something along the lines of "we're not" in regards to being a survivor I chalk it up to the overall message that while people still roam the Earth they will NOT be doing so much longer.

>>1272386
We have pretty different tastes in every other field. But Richterfist bro. You seen much of Tuymans' work? Very sensible, noteworthy antecedent of Richter.

>Vermeiren delivers no conclusions, but opens up possibilities of understanding the work through memory, silence, film, time, and nothingness. By contrast, Dieter Roelstraete gives us a single all-pervading theme: smoking. In his essay, “Scenes of Waiting. A Portrait of the Artist as a Persistent Smoker,” Roelstraete discusses Tuymans’s chain-smoking habit and how it relates to his painting, how painting and smoking in general are connected, and why Tuymans installed a peculiar glass smoking room inside the exhibition (bizarrely, there is no photograph of this in the catalog, though there is on MuHKA’s website).