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pig slut lisa posted:I will say the biggest weakness of The Jungle imo is that Sinclair does what a lot of lefty writers in the first part of the 20th century did, which is put a long dry speech near the end of the book just so you, the reader, are left absolutely certain that yes socialism is good and here's why. My complaint isn't political, just literary. After a few hundred pages of showing us what you mean, now you're gonna laze out and beat us over the head by telling us what you mean? Boo! Boring! I really like the Jungle and it does have good bits throughout, but the first half where the family gets completely ground up in the machinery of capitalism is better imo than the second half where Jurgis develops politically. The development of political consciousness is a very very tricky to get right. Two other books that also lag in the second half for this reason are The Grapes of Wrath and Huckleberry Finn. Don't get me wrong: they're stone cold classics but I think they all succeed in part because of a momentum they build up in the first half and release in the second.
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Jack B Nimble posted:Oh hey, about that: gently caress yeah. I was just looking for info about this very thing. Thanks a bunch.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Are there specific authors who have succeeded in writing explicitly socialist popular novels, succeeding where it seems the consensus is this fails? Any Rands for the Proletariat? The Grapes of Wrath? To be fair I wouldn't say that Rand's books are more successful than The Jungle (way less because at least Sinclair is a competent writer sentence by sentence). Constructing a narrative to make an ideological point is really difficult.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
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Bard Maddox posted:finished my reread of The Jungle. Marija's path really affected me a lot more this time around. Marija is the best character
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