But that just seems so nonsensical.

by zen_

Posted to WritersAndGenres on 2003-11-06 10:01:00

Parent message is 537219
Perhaps if I can accept the hero as an artificial construct, then anti-hero makes sense. But It’s been a long time since I believed in Heros, and true villians. Literature can be like a laboratory, or a petri dish, or some other construct of man’s deconstructavist nature. However, the thought that this person is devoid of all qualities attributed to a hero essentially puts him in the realm of jellyfish.

This wouldn’t apply to Chinaski, or I think, most of the anti-heros given as an example. Chinaski didn’t have much going for him. He was a slug for the most part–much like Jim according to my sister. However, he made decisions to keep his lifestyle, wretched as it was, instead of making something truly brilliant with himself. And in that is a type of integrity. No, fuck it. There is integrity.

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