Re: waiting for the Miracle
Brendan McKennedy (suburbantourist@hotmail.com)
Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:34:24 -0800 (PST)
I would appreciate it if you would recommend
>to me some tangible Classics that are necessary for the redemption,
>guidance (or acceptance?) of a troubled youth. Preferably ones that I
>can buy.
As far as, er, Classics go, I have to put in my vote for "Frankenstein."
A lovely existentialist novel that long predated any of those glib and
deprecating French Resistance veterans who gave the philosophy its
title. Whatever you do, don't see any of the "Frankenstein"
movies--even the recent one that was rather misguidedly called "Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein". If you've already seen a Frankenstein movie,
block it out, at least for the time being, and read the novel. It is
truly a novel of redemption, although futile and poorly directed
redemption--but one of the more palatable of the Romantics. (I have a
sort of apoplectic response to Jane Austen...you'll have to pardon me,
please). It is not a horror story at all, just a sad, sad tale of a man
with an Oedepis complex and a consuming guilt. You cannot help but be
better for it.
Brendan
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