how did he do it bros?
>no agent
>debut novel
>independent publisher
>pulitzer finalist
How did he do it bros?
Cameron Robinson
Isaiah Perez
rapist;shitty books too pulitzer doesent mean shit
Josiah Jackson
>Diaz
Isaac Rogers
>Diaz
Julian Bennett
>His book is about an immigrant Swede of unusual size journeying in America’s desert frontier between the Gold Rush and the Civil War.
>“It’s weird,” he said. Weird that the western novel was so underachieving, given how tightly the genre embraces America’s most potent myths about itself. Westerns, he said, glamorize “the worst aspects of the imperial drive of the United States” — brutality against nature, genocidal racism, “the whole macho thing, the place of women, the frivolous violence, it goes on.”
>Mr. Diaz, it should be clear, is a western writer who hates guns. He said it sickened him to think that telling Håkan’s story would require imagining and describing acts of murderous violence. “I came very close to not writing the book,” he said. “But I knew something really bad had to happen to him to make the plot plausible.”
>He was born in Buenos Aires in 1973. His mother was a psychoanalyst; his father a filmmaker who became involved in Trotskyist politics, which put the family in danger after Argentina’s military coup, when Hernán was 2. They fled to Stockholm. Moving there and then back to Argentina as a boy gave Mr. Diaz double doses of immigrant dislocation; the emotional aftereffect of isolation and bullying seem to echo in his story of lonely Håkan.
So to recap:
>Parents are Argentines so probably crypto-Jews
>red diaper baby of the Trotskyist strain
>immigrant novel
>MC is an Eternal Swede, his descendants will probably become advocates for Somalian immigration
>Author hates guns
He checks all the right boxes for the Current Year.
Camden Perez
FUCKING BAIT THREAD
Charles Ortiz
god this guy sounds like an insufferable faggot
Luis Watson
yup
Dylan Ross
Hispanic name.
Justin Hernandez
There is nothing Eternal about the Swede, user. What you believe about the swede has barely been a thing for thing for the entire 2010s.
Liam Barnes
look at this faggot standing in a tennis court not facing the camera.
i don't want to read his stupid book. probably he is an industry plant. probably his parents were rich and now the children of a family friend who runs a press is putting his masturbatory National Literature into global circulation. who cares? who cares about any of this? with any luck i'll die in my sleep tonight.
Kevin Mitchell
Read an excerpt, it wasn't very compelling
Asher Gutierrez
Don't try to apply logic to /pol/ memes
Jackson Parker
Yeah you're right, user
Leo Foster
This book is one of the better Westerns I've read in the last few years. It is on par with BM. And this book is one of the best contemporary novels I have read. Stop being /pol/-baiting pseuds.
Christian James
Sounds like a good book desu, I'll have to check it out
Luis Stewart
>It is on par with BM.
Definitely not, despite being equally overwritten.
Andrew Cruz
Honestly i have no problem with abook about a guy being sad and lonely in the desert
Brandon Watson
>there
>are
>no
>more
>great
>american
>novels
Carter Reed
>swedes immigranz
>named Hakan
Holy fuck.. Is it already that time that people dont even remember now that western countries existet way before it was fllooded with shitskins and niggers?
Nathaniel Walker
What are you trying to imply with your greentext? That Håkan isnt a Swedish name??
Ian White
It is. It's a great examination of cultural myths, how they form, and how they make an impression. Lit would also loves this book since Håkan spends a vast amount of time living in isolation in an underground cave system he built. It's a great rumination on solitude and loneliness.
Julian Myers
if you type the name "hakan" into google, the first link says its a common turkish name
whats going on there?
Thomas Turner
Håkan you low IQ /pol/-baiter. It's a common Swedish name. Want me to link you to the Wikipedia page? It has roots in Nordic/Viking culture.
en.m.wikipedia.org
Samuel Powell
wow you're dumb
Isaiah Martinez
how is it spelt in the book?
Jace Collins
the /pol/ niggers in this retarded thread need to get the fuck out
This books is based and should've won the prize over Less which is actual dogshit.
But Yea Forums doesn't read! So who cares about either of those books! A whole thread about white supremacy instead!
Camden Ward
>Westerns, he said, glamorize “the worst aspects of the imperial drive of the United States” — brutality against nature, genocidal racism, “the whole macho thing, the place of women, the frivolous violence, it goes on.”
I think he meant to say best aspects
Wyatt Collins
obsession verging on mental illness
Christian Taylor
why are you angry
theres no poltards in this thread
Ian Perry
Why would I want to read this cuck fag's books?
Wyatt Wood
Theres plenty of decent "Anti-westerns" out there. Wtf is this fag talking about.
Isaiah Harris
>wtf is that tetris building in the background
Cooper Cook
Do you know how many Pulitzers they give away?
Jack Cruz
cope of the highest order, just admit your /pol/tardation
Juan Williams
yeah actually, one each year per genre. frogposting is shitposting
Christian Flores
If your book wins a Pulitzer, you should be pissed because they are recognizing you as middlebrow
Carson Butler
>gee, guys, an algorithm said I'm right, what's the problem? we don't have to know anything anymore or even think critically about answers, just type something into a computer and you always get the correct answer, amirite?
Isaiah Peterson
Coffee House isn’t exactly an unknown publisher and Diaz had a LOT of bookseller support...you guys need to get out more.
Eli Flores
bloody retard ahahahaha
Easton Hall
>Diaz had a LOT of bookseller support
how did he do that?
Charles Lee
>He said it sickened him to think that telling Håkan’s story would require imagining and describing acts of murderous violence.
wtf?! I hate literature now! #artistsshouldbepussies
Tyler Price
You people should use the guy as inspiration, not simply hate on him. He spend 6 years working on his novel and published when he was already well passed his 30s.
I haven’t read it yet, but by what I can see in the news it’s seems quite a good novel.
Lincoln Hughes
Do you people think this is good writing?
theparisreview.org
Carson Anderson
Jaxon Gutierrez
...
Gavin Lewis
not sure if obsessed or just brainwashed
Josiah Morris
This post has certainly triggered the snowflakes.
Cameron Ramirez
Daniel Morris
>Trot
Oh so he's a neocon.
Landon Cook
>Man succeeds at something
How long until the "serious" accusations surface?
Tyler Allen
Blood Meridian is only an analysis of cultural myths on a facile level.