{"id":106799,"date":"2017-01-18T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T14:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=106799"},"modified":"2017-01-18T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T17:09:58","slug":"crave-the-conflict-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/18\/crave-the-conflict-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Crave the Conflict, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-106801\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines.jpg 1956w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines-768x651.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/benedictines-1024x867.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As Inauguration Day beckons with its plump, vulgar middle finger, writers are struggling to articulate their role in the resistance: How do we undo our nation\u2019s descent into mediocrity and bigotry? Surely it won\u2019t hurt to\u00a0brush up on our occultist spell-writing, which may have gotten rusty since the Bush years. But Aleksandar Hemon\u2014who knows more than a little about the way societies can crumble into cesspools of violence and hate\u2014has a better idea. He urges writers to pursue a \u201csplit-mind\u201d\u00a0literature, one that eschews the assumptions of bourgeois culture: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/arts\/stop-making-sense-or-how-to-write-in-the-age-of-trump-9575300\">In America, a comfortable entitlement additionally blunts and deactivates imagination\u2014it is hard to imagine that this American life is not the only life possible, that there could be any reason to undo it, because it just makes sense as it is, everything is going fine<\/a>. One of the roles literature often serves in a bourgeois culture is to make a case for this life as endless and universal, as making perfect, if pleasingly complicated, sense, as containing all that is required for the ever comforting processes of our understanding ourselves. Literature becomes ontological propaganda, a machinery for making reality appear unalterable. The vast majority of Anglo-American literary production serves that purpose, confirming what is already agreed upon as knowable \u2026 What I call for is a literature that craves the conflict and owns the destruction, a split-mind literature that features fear and handles shock, that keeps self-evident \u2018reality\u2019 safely within the quotation marks. Never should we assume the sun will rise tomorrow, that America cannot be a fascist state, or that the nice-guy neighbor will not be a murderer because he gives out candy at Halloween.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Marina Warner doesn\u2019t speak Russian, but that didn\u2019t stop her from enjoying a performance of Anna Akhmatova\u2019s poetry at the Gogol Centre: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/01\/16\/marina-warner\/at-the-gogol-centre\/\">Unintelligibility has become interesting to me as a far more common state\u2014with its own benefits\u2014than has been recognized<\/a>. Some of the most involving and passionate moments of a reading life can be baffling. In my first encounters with\u00a0<em>Rebecca<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Waste Land<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Waiting for Godot<\/em>, Dante\u2019s\u00a0<em>Paradiso<\/em>, I could grasp very little of what was being said, either at the level of the words or in the larger picture of narrative and thought. Yet these works absorbed me utterly, and their feel has remained vivid in memory; they felt intense and alive and their power is and was contagious\u2014they made me feel intense and alive too. There\u2019s something about attending to a work beyond lucidity that\u2019s like learning a language when young, or finding your way around a neighborhood.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sure, <em>Moby-Dick <\/em>is a signal achievement and the Great American Novel and a cornerstone of the canon and all that\u2014but haven\u2019t you ever wondered if Melville was only trying to pull off literature\u2019s greatest penis joke? I mean \u2026 Moby-<em>Dick<\/em>?\u00a0And also, like \u2026 whales are obscenely well hung, and isn\u2019t that funny? In Canada, where apparently Melville is less beloved than the esteemed litterateur Tim Horton, authorities are reluctant to let Melville perpetrate yet another dick joke from the grave. Emily Saul reports, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2017\/01\/17\/moby-dicks-restaurant-blocked-because-of-name\/\">A Canadian fish and chips franchise called \u2018Moby Dick\u2019s\u2019 is suing their local building council for blocking the purchase of a new restaurant, because the council doesn\u2019t like having the word \u2018dick\u2019 on a sign<\/a> \u2026 The council maintains the \u2018offensive\u2019 sign could drive down the price of neighboring properties, and promote litter in the area. Yet the owners claim in court papers the name is \u2018not offensive to the public, given its literary significance and fame.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>And the thing is, that\u2019s not even the stupidest piece of literary news from the past twenty-four hours. That honor goes to one Joseph Charles McKenzie, some \u201cpoet\u201d who wrote a horrific encomium to our incoming president, which was briefly touted as an official inaugural poem before the Internet wised up:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/donald-trump-inauguration-poem-barack-obama-tyrant-scottish-heritage-a7530506.html\">Come out for the Domhnall, ye brave men and proud,<br \/>\n<\/a><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/donald-trump-inauguration-poem-barack-obama-tyrant-scottish-heritage-a7530506.html\">The scion of Torquil and best of MacLeod!<br \/>\n<\/a>With purpose and strength he came down from his tower<br \/>\nTo snatch from a tyrant his ill-gotten power.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Should you prefer the verse of a real poet, Ed Simon recommends reading Richard Barnfield, a forgotten Elizabethan sonneteer whose poems are so steeped in homoeroticism that academics chose to ignore him for centuries: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/queenmobs.com\/2017\/01\/simon\/\">Though Barnfield (unsuccessfully) defended his poems against the accusation of them promoting sodomy, the verse itself is seemingly a proud (if at times heartbreaking) expression of the love between men in the seventeenth century<\/a> \u2026 Barnfield\u2019s poetry haunts, not just because of his talent which has been traditionally ignored, but because he supplies a quiet voice to a community of men denied theirs. Homosexual men of the period lacked a vocabulary to speak of their rights, and were buffeted by the oppressions of church and state. The literature of the time was too toothless to fully express that love, yet Barnfield courageously speaks of his frustrations and sorrows.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: Hemon on literature under Trump, Marina Warner at the Gogol Centre, and &#8220;Moby Dick&#8221; misunderstood as a penis 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