Denis Johnson Train Dreams

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.

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,
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,
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.

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.