Denis Johnson Train Dreams: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 22:41, 26 March 2018

Denis Johnson has style.. He's been into the worst of places, and felt the very murky worlds on him. And you can feel it in his writing. Reading him, I am also reading the architecture of his darkness. He will take you by the hand to experience the walk on the edge of the brutal and the spiritual , and all that with a single character, a 1920 USA Robert Grainer, A pulchritude of brutal, a pulchritude of spiritual and a pulchritude of existential crossovers stylistically knitted in a story of a rather simple life, with just a couple of outstanding twists.

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-What a wonderful piece of writing! Only by reading this short novella I am ready to declare myself a Denis Johnson fan. Like fan for life, cross my heart and hope to die way. <br />
+Denis Johnson has style.. He's been into the worst of places, and felt the very murky worlds on him. And you can feel it in his writing. Reading him,
+I am also reading the architecture of his darkness.
-I've heard his name pop up in awe during a talk I watched some time ago on you Tube,  if I remember correctly, between Zadie Smith and Salman Rushdie,<br />
+He will take you by the hand to experience the walk on the edge of the brutal  and the spiritual , and all that with a single  character, a 1920 USA Robert Grainer,
-but they were talking about his style. But now that I've read this short piece, I started reading articles about his other works and more about his life,<br />
+A pulchritude of brutal, a pulchritude of spiritual and a  pulchritude of existential crossovers stylistically knitted  in a story of a rather simple life, with just a couple of outstanding twists.
-and his character and started forming an understanding and an architecture of a place his creativity is coming from. And I want to read more. <br />
-Because, of the irresistible pulchritude, and pulchritude being a new word in my universe, the irresistible pulchritude of portraying a life of a man called Robert Grainer, set in the 1920 USA.
-A pulchritude of brutal, a pulchritude of spiritual and a  pulchritude of existential crossovers stylistically used to suck you up in the discovery of his seemingly simple life, to look very cinematically
-dense, the Nature of terrains that his eyes and heart are witnessing and to, once finished with it feel like you yourself have died a little with him.