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- W2912989078 abstract "Art is a racket to scam the pretentious, music is nothing more than a barrier to insulate yourself from the outside world, even love is just another Hollywood lie. This nihilistic philosophy is the view of the nameless narrator of Matthew Selwyn's ****: The anatomy of melancholy. Selwyn's teenage antihero spends his days pursuing women, alternating between the glamorous Lexi and geeky German goth Chloe, and pontificating about sexual desire in the internet age. **** is a portrait of a young man filled with seething contempt for everything around him: from school-run mothers to bookshop pretension, from education to feminism. The pinnacle of modern masculinity, he sees himself as part of a new breed of human who has learnt to see through the lies of the modern world through exposure to the desensitising effect of internet pornography and the interconnected superficiality of internet life. Selwyn tells his tale as much through the absence of information as through its presence; large portions of the book pass before we learn about how our narrator makes his living, or about his family life. Fantasy sequences are expressed in a manner almost indistinguishable from fact, and the sequence and timing of the events in the book is left ambiguous. Key questions about his life go unaddressed, and important events are described without ever explicitly showing us the aftermath. Selwyn turns this Spartan approach to storytelling into a form of artful misdirection, which leads us to one conclusion before he reveals a different reality. The issue of the character's mental health is barely addressed yet ever-present. The reader is left wondering what led Selwyn to his regular sessions with his therapist Annabel, and the narration in these parts are concerned mainly with his efforts to evade her attempts to understand him. However, his whole worldview comes from the grey area between depression and philosophy, where the absence of meaning he feels is a sign of insight rather than a symptom of his disease. **** is a well crafted book, a bleak yet thought-provoking portrayal of a character whose very superficiality leaves us eager to find out what horrors lie beneath the surface, and what reality he protects himself from with his elaborate fantasy life." @default.
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- W2912989078 title "Comfortably numb" @default.
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