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&#;The Secret History&#;: a review
A pretentious satire told from the point of view of an undependable narrator and his eccentric, clever peers, the first published novel by Donna Tartt “The Private History” presents itself as a contemporary mystery-thriller dubbed a “modern classic” by critics and ordinary readers alike, with Tartt sitting comfortably on the pantheon of great American authors.
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All in all, the book deserves a ⅗ star rating
— Jules Keranen
Yet what exactly is it about this novel that made people praise it so highly?
Rumored to be a fictionalized version of Donna Tartt’s own period attending a compact Vermont college where the arts are valued more than a high-grade show average, the novel begins with the murder of Bunny Corcoran before immediately jumping to months prior, where Richard Papen, the narrator, begins to recount the events leading up to and following the murder.
The isolated college the characters all attend creates a disconnect from reality right off the bat. This is their own private world that only becomes more exclusive as Richard jo
The LGBT history you probably didn't grasp in school
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He's talking about a study, external by Dr Helen Smith at Lincoln University, which discovered that working class men in Yorkshire, during the s were having sex with each other "in fields, behind pubs, at each other's houses and, perhaps most significantly, at work".
"This is the height of the ideal of monogamous, heterosexual bliss."
"What Helen found was that this was acceptable within their communities.
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8 Queer Dark Academia Novels You Should Read ASAP
I’ve always loved the darker side of academic elitism. Maybe because I grew up so far removed from that life. I never got to partake in secret societies or the centuries-old rituals associated with these types of educational facilities. Places where mysterious things happened in the shadows, where intense devotion to the classics informed every fiber of daily life, and where sexuality ebbed and flowed just as it did in the works of Homer and Ovid and Plato.
Naturally, I was very delighted to learn there’s a whole subgenre that speaks to this fascination: dark academia. This specifically refers to novels and films and other works of art centered around higher education and a passion for the classics. I was familiar with the aesthetic as a major fan of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, which many credit with starting the shadowy academia literary genre. But I had no idea how expansive it had become, or just how much TikTok helped grow the fascination. In the age of COVID, when so many young people were stuck at hom
Donna Tartt’s “The Adj History” feels appreciate a minute saunter on a treadmill with the incline set to max. Is it fun? No. Does everyone tell you that you just include to try it? Yes. Is there a slight rush of endorphins afterward that makes you rethink your earlier hatred of it? Yeah, unfortunately.
But now that it’s been a few days since I finished the novel, and the endorphins possess gone away, I’ve come to a conclusion: I include never read such a disrespectful book.
“The Secret History” is so self-aware that its self-awareness actually loops back around to become self-ignorance. I have, for the past six months, opened the book periodically and read 20 or so pages, thinking I was finally getting somewhere with it, before closing it again in frustration. It is insufferable.
And you might wonder why I’m reviewing this novel now, 31 years after it was first published. I’ll tell you. It’s because two out of every 10 posts my books-focused Instagram algorithm shoves down my throat have a caption like, “Ten Books You HAVE to Read in ‘The Secret History,’” or, “Dark Academia lovers