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A review by sputniktart
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
5.0
“the dionysian is no picnic. it is the cthonian realities which apollo evades, the blind grinding of subterranean force, the long slow suck, the murk and ooze. it is the dehumanizing brutality of biology and geology, the darwinian waste and bloodshed, the squalor and rot we must block from consciousness to retain our apollonian integrity as persons.” (camille paglia, “sex and violence, or nature and art”)
i’m not sure if there’s anything i could add to the discussion of this book: an arresting tale of a group of constantly drunk friends, obsessed with each other and their own delusions who willfully fall in line to form their own classical cult religion around the most quietly charismatic member of their group; the member least concerned with our questions of morals and social order. a love letter to classics and the most dreadful imagining of reinstating its values in a modern setting.
i’m not sure if there’s anything i could add to the discussion of this book: an arresting tale of a group of constantly drunk friends, obsessed with each other and their own delusions who willfully fall in line to form their own classical cult religion around the most quietly charismatic member of their group; the member least concerned with our questions of morals and social order. a love letter to classics and the most dreadful imagining of reinstating its values in a modern setting.