http://reading.kingrat.biz/story-reviews/ysrael-junot-diaz Books make me happy. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://reading.kingrat.biz/story-reviews/ysrael-junot-diaz#comment-4714 Anonymous Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:34:28 +0000 http://reading.kingrat.biz/?p=1219#comment-4714 Learn to use the apostrophe before you submit literary crit. eh. Learn to use the apostrophe before you submit literary crit. eh.

]]> http://reading.kingrat.biz/story-reviews/ysrael-junot-diaz#comment-3632 charlie Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:46:27 +0000 http://reading.kingrat.biz/?p=1219#comment-3632 hes not just writing about a kid that likes being mean to ugly people. Diaz is a pulitzer prize winning professor at MIT. Give him a little more credit. The story is a psychoanlaytical commentary on "the symbolic order's" trodding of the "Id" and "ego's" pursuit of pleasure. The return of the repressed, it's a simulacrum of the eruption of "the real" when it is made to traumatically acknowledge the materiality of its own existence. But you wouldn't know that without a small background in psych. But, yes, without examination, the story IS about a kid that likes to "do bad things and feel sick about it." hes not just writing about a kid that likes being mean to ugly people. Diaz is a pulitzer prize winning professor at MIT. Give him a little more credit. The story is a psychoanlaytical commentary on “the symbolic order’s” trodding of the “Id” and “ego’s” pursuit of pleasure. The return of the repressed, it’s a simulacrum of the eruption of “the real” when it is made to traumatically acknowledge the materiality of its own existence. But you wouldn’t know that without a small background in psych. But, yes, without examination, the story IS about a kid that likes to “do bad things and feel sick about it.”

]]> http://reading.kingrat.biz/story-reviews/ysrael-junot-diaz#comment-3288 MANICboii Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:34:50 +0000 http://reading.kingrat.biz/?p=1219#comment-3288 U SUK U SUK

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