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I'm surprised I don't see this book mentioned more often. It's literally homosexual kiddie porn novel by a man lauded by the establishment as a "genius."
Throughout the book, children are continuously raped and beaten.
The author, Samuel Delany, admitted that he wrote the novel as a pornographic fantasy for himself and his homosexual lover. He further admitted that they masturbated each other to scenes that he'd written. Hogg has no plot. Its a series of scenes in which the most grotesque child rape fantasies are expressed.
Delaney, a black man, currently teaches creative writing at Temple University. He's regularly profiled by magazines and newspapers like the New Yorker and New York Times. These profiles promote him as a literary icon. Junot Diaz, among others, cite him among their heroes. He's celebrated as one of America's most important LGBT writers.
>Turns out this post is actually accurate
We should unironically gas the whole LGBYQIJHKLBU community
*AHEM*
Sieg Heil Hitler
If you don't reserve a significant portion of your outrage for the publishing / critical / academic industry, you're missing the point.
This man is beloved by the current literary establishment. He has tenure at Temple University. He likely makes around $120,000 annually.
He's black, homosexual, and suffers from a learning disability. He's not especially bright. He writes kiddie porn novels in which boys are raped to death.
This is the current state of "approved" American literature.
seething
Based and Piercepilled
>Hogg has no plot.
i thought it was about that crazy guy who got injured, who was slowly rotting away and who would show up every so often to let us see how badly his infected injury was getting.
>He writes kiddie porn novels in which boys are raped to death.
i don't think he's lauded for "Hogg", which most people have never even heard of, much less read. i thought "Babel-17" was cool, "Empire Star" was weird, and "Dhalgren" was, as indicated above, gay porn.
he did once write cool stuff. then he stopped giving a damn.
Again, this misses the point. The issue here is that this man is held up as a "genius" by those in control of the American literary establishment. What values do they champion? Who do they promote? Why would they choose Samuel Delany over others?
Most readers of Yea Forums accept that American contemporary "high literature" is a disaster: most of it is boring; few can sit through a story in the New Yorker or Ploughshares or Harpers or the Missouri Review without nodding off. But the literary establishment isn't just full of harmless ideological hacks like the Union of Soviet Writers was during the 60s, 70s and 80s. It actively encourages debasement, perversion, weakness, exhaustion and nihilism. It's both boring and purulent.
The sickness of this culture runs so deep that few can see it clearly.