by
Katie Roiphe
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The Naked and the Conflicted
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vituperation
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(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating
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there is punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago
there is punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews
confirm
7 years, 4 months ago
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[...] Wallace goes on to attack Updike and, in passing, Roth and Mailer for being narcissists. But does this mean that the new generation of novelists is not narcissistic? I would suspect, narcissism being about as common among male novelists as brown eyes in the general public, that it does not. It means that we are simply witnessing the flowering of a new narcissism: boys too busy gazing at themselves in the mirror to think much about girls, boys lost in [...] the noble purity of being just a tiny bit repelled by the crude advances of the desiring world.
on DFW's attack of Updike
[...] Wallace goes on to attack Updike and, in passing, Roth and Mailer for being narcissists. But does this mean that the new generation of novelists is not narcissistic? I would suspect, narcissism being about as common among male novelists as brown eyes in the general public, that it does not. It means that we are simply witnessing the flowering of a new narcissism: boys too busy gazing at themselves in the mirror to think much about girls, boys lost in [...] the noble purity of being just a tiny bit repelled by the crude advances of the desiring world.
on DFW's attack of Updike