>>818367I kind of regret making the chocolate bar TABS. I should've made it covered in semen or something, that would've been funnier. I didn't think of it in the moment.
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>MontherlantMontherlant is a very difficult figure to talk about in contemporary times because of his wildly disagreeable politics. The majority of people who know of him reject his work entirely under the idea that it's nothing but violently misogynistic babble - which, although half-true, in some instances, is a very shitty representation of him as an artist.
I really, really like Montherlant's writing. Pedarasty memery aside - I struggle to think of many people who have ever written with as much tenderness and intensity as he did. The Boys is one of my favorite books of all time - it's so deeply PASSIONATE, and bleak, and cynical, and evocative... It genuinely left me trembling after I was done. (The Bachelors and Chaos and Night had a similar effect of me, though not to the same extent. I still haven't read The Dream, despite really wanting to - mostly because I can't find a free PDF of it online lol). Despite his fervent hatred for modernity, I genuinely can't think of a more profoundly Modern artist - he amalgamates every terrible feeling of modern bleakness into his writing so violently well. I love.
When I made a small reference to how "Simone de Beauvoir was too mean to Montherlant" (
>>817020, on pedo-kun's hat), this is kind of what I was talking about. I don't sincerely think her criticism wasn't valid (because, despite what I made pedo-kun say at some points, I am not actually a womanhater or antifeminist on principle), but it upsets me that he'll always be regarded as nothing but a "misogynycore" (as I've seen redditors call it) author.
I wish I could consume more discussion pertaining to his work, but the vast majority of such is in French, and I am a subhuman non-Francophone.
