Jonathan Franzen on America’s Strangest Novel by Donald Antrim - The Daily Beast: "The genius of the novel is that it maps these contradictory feelings onto the archetypal figure of the scapegoat: the exemplary sufferer who recurs throughout human history, most notably in the person of Jesus of Nazareth, as an object of both love and homicidal rage, and who must be ritually killed in order for the rest of us to go on living with the contradictions in our lesser hearts."
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I have left this formatting as is for obvious reasons. From a longer essay by Gary Moore Derrida on Peirce In the second c...
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