Faulkner: The Trump Family are the Snopes Family of New York. On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 8:04 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote:
> For four years I have been playing a game with myself, asking what > imaginative writers could have dreamed up a figure of such grotesque comic > malignity as Donald Trump. I have come up with five candidates: Jonathan > Swift (the Yahoos, “the most filthy, noisome and deformed animals which > nature ever produced”); Terry Southern (Guy Grand, the billionaire > trickster figure of his 1959 novel, *The Magic Christian*); Bertolt > Brecht (Arturo Ui and his resistible rise); Alfred Jarry (Ubu Roi, the > obese, infantile, grandiose, and gluttonous antihero of a play that, > fittingly, caused a near-riot when it was first performed in Paris in > 1896); and William Gaddis (what is Trump really besides the child tycoon JR > all grown up?). I tend to resist dignifying Trump with any comparison to > figures in Shakespeare or Greek and Roman literature, but hey, knock > yourself out. > > https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-disappointed/ > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#5856): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/5856 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80129339/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
