Every once in a while a story comes along that really gets
me excited, makes me want to jump up and shout into the air, 'damn
straight'. Well, this article is one of
those that had me nodding through the whole thing. Author Jeff Suwak writes an
illuminating essay that focuses on 'lower class' writers such as Charles
Bukowski, Upton Sinclaire and Jack Kerouac as compared to those recommended by
the literary elite among the upper class snobs such as Shakespere, Byron and
Chaucer. When I read something, I look
for something I can relate to, something that gives me hope to pull me out of
the mess I've created, not read a bunch of pretty words that don't mean shit in
the real world. This article speaks to
me the way Suwak says that Bukowski speaks to him.
Check it out, folks.
Letter to an Asshole by Jeff Suwak
"An asshole once told me that Shakespeare wrote
predominantly about royals and the like because common people lacked the
insight and intellectual subtlety needed to illuminate the human condition. His
assessment was not restrained solely to the unwashed masses of Elizabethan
England, but was instead used to bolster his point that the works of people
like Charles Bukowski were flawed by nature and devoid of any literary or
social merit.
His bone of contention was that writers like Bukowski
glorified the ignorance of the lower classes, and that they could offer no
worthwhile existential perspective. I found the whole conversation to be an
absurd crock of horseshit, but the asshole also happened to be my English
professor, so I kept my mouth shut and walked away. Just give me my A,
Professor Asshole, so that I can get the hell out of here and get into grad
school."
To read more, please visit the Prague Revue at
http://praguerevue.com/ViewArticle?articleId=3427
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Till next time,
~T.L. Gray
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