6/19/2023 0 Comments Dhalgren by samuel r delany![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When something really involving, violent, or important happens, it occupies too much of my time, my physical energy, and my thought to be able to write about. Frankly, that is too stupid to write about. We sit most of the time, watch the dull sky slipping. Most of what happens hour by hour here is quiet and dull. The falsification of this journal: first off, it doesn’t reflect my daily life. Describing this notebook, the Kid writes: Dhalgren eventually splinters into a metafictional narrative in which the Kid appears to be composing the very novel itself in the notebook, which he also uses to sketch poems and journal entries. DELANY’S best-selling masterpiece Dhalgren, the amnesiac protagonist known only as “the Kid” arrives in the strange, dystopian American city of Bellona, finds a notebook, and begins to add his own writing to it. ![]()
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