Comments | imofish: Monogamy in Fiction

imofish

Monogamy in Fiction

Jan 30, 2009 16:58

I've been reading The Administration for the past few days and I just finished. Finishing books always leaves me with a unique depression. The only cure is to start a new book, but I'm usually so attached to what I've just finished that I can't conceive of picking up something that might not be as good.

What I'm trying to say is, any book recs? Or ( Read more... )

fiction, navel-gazing, meta

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llamapi January 31 2009, 11:32:58 UTC

I think I have similar feelings re: the need for monogamous, functional relationships by the end of the story. It's WEIRD that that dynamic is such a strong signal for resolution in fiction, like an active WANT, when in real life I am also either kind of "sure, fine, whatever," or actively "bleeeeaaah" about it. (To use some real eloquent terms ( ... )

imofish January 31 2009, 12:10:29 UTC

Wooord on the Capitalism thing. There are many levels on which my narrative preferences and expectations contradict my RL ones.

Like, it's all really tied up in "resolution" and it's hard to extract the two. Like, Resolution is necessary but can I really only imagine resolution in the form of monogamy? That's so. . .limiting.

A narrative has an end, whereas the characters (unless rocks fall and everyone dies) continue on. (That sounded way more profound in my head.) So what signals the resolution? What does non-monogamous resolution look like?!