Comments on: Austerism http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Viktor Kaparov http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/comment-page-1/#comment-3035 Viktor Kaparov Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:35:12 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1998#comment-3035 Interesting, but did you know that Austerism is also a political ideology? A variation of original Fascism that has a higher emphasis on religion and law. Interesting, but did you know that Austerism is also a political ideology?

A variation of original Fascism that has a higher emphasis on religion and law.

]]> By: student http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/comment-page-1/#comment-3034 student Sat, 25 Aug 2007 20:10:45 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1998#comment-3034 Unless you're Donald Bartheleme, in which case it's pretty damn funny. Or completely incomprehensible. Probably 60/40 odds. Unless you’re Donald Bartheleme, in which case it’s pretty damn funny. Or completely incomprehensible. Probably 60/40 odds.

]]> By: Mike http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/comment-page-1/#comment-3033 Mike Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:14:05 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1998#comment-3033 Not only are Paul Auster's characters exactly as smart as Paul Auster, but often they *are* Paul Auster. But actually, the best Paul Auster book of all is _Hand to Mouth_, his memoir. Like his best books, the main character is "Paul Auster", except instead of being brilliant, he's almost entirely a failure. Not only are Paul Auster’s characters exactly as smart as Paul Auster, but often they *are* Paul Auster.

But actually, the best Paul Auster book of all is _Hand to Mouth_, his memoir. Like his best books, the main character is “Paul Auster”, except instead of being brilliant, he’s almost entirely a failure.

]]> By: Julian Sanchez http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/comment-page-1/#comment-3032 Julian Sanchez Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:05:06 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1998#comment-3032 Well, I think that's quite enough. Not because I particularly care about "realism" in the sense of "correspondence to real life" but because it ruins the internal credibility of the narrative. I have nothing as such against a novel in which all the characters are incredibly brilliant, but they shouldn't be *inappropriately* brilliant. If you've established that character is a rough-and-tumble sort with little formal education, you can make him insightful or wise or what have you, but he had better not sound like an Oxford don and pepper his conversation with casual allusions to Ovid, or the thing will ring false. Well, I think that’s quite enough. Not because I particularly care about “realism” in the sense of “correspondence to real life” but because it ruins the internal credibility of the narrative. I have nothing as such against a novel in which all the characters are incredibly brilliant, but they shouldn’t be *inappropriately* brilliant. If you’ve established that character is a rough-and-tumble sort with little formal education, you can make him insightful or wise or what have you, but he had better not sound like an Oxford don and pepper his conversation with casual allusions to Ovid, or the thing will ring false.

]]> By: S. Tarzan http://www.juliansanchez.com/2007/08/20/austerism/comment-page-1/#comment-3031 S. Tarzan Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:21:27 +0000 http://juliansanchez.com/?p=1998#comment-3031 How is that a bad thing? It might make a novel less realistic, but so what? How is that a bad thing? It might make a novel less realistic, but so what?

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