Selby wrote the novel after the stagflation and political corruption that characterized Nixon’s administration had thoroughly deflated the idealism of the ‘60s. So, too, do the book’s environments become more and more deprived of hope as the narrative jerks forward toward its bleak end, in which the characters lose all control over their lives and are left at the mercy of a callous society. His characters’ thoughts become increasingly repetitive and distorted as they succumb to opioid addiction. The novel is written in the stream-of-consciousness mode, but far from the eloquent formalism of modernists like Woolf or the rambling spontaneity of the less talented Beat writers, Selby’s prose reads as frenetic, tense, and unsettling. His characters’ thoughts become increasingly repetitive and distorted as they succumb to opioid addic First published in 1978, seven years after the start of the War on Drugs, Requiem for a Dream tracks the course of four lives as they’re destroyed by addiction. moreįirst published in 1978, seven years after the start of the War on Drugs, Requiem for a Dream tracks the course of four lives as they’re destroyed by addiction. To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America." - The New York Times Book Review. HIs work has the power, the intimacy with suffering and morality, the honesty and moral urgency of Doestoevsky's. "Selby's place is in the front rank of American novelists. Even as their lives slowly deteriorate around them, they cling to their delusions and become utterly consumed in the spiral of drugs and addiction, refusing to see that they have instead created their own worst nightmares.
Entranced by the gleaming visions of their futures, these four convince themselves that unexpected setbacks are only temporary. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut heroin. She becomes addicted to diet pills in her obsessive quest, while her junkie son, Harry, along with his girlfriend, Marion, and his best friend, Tyrone, have devised an illicit shortcut to wealth and leisure by scoring a pound of uncut hero In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show. In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight and appear on a television game show.
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