ENG235H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Daniel Clowes, Christopher Sorrentino, David Boring
Document Summary
Creates a story recovery of older narrative forms 3 act play father"s comic. David"s history and his father"s history. Clowes speaks to the making of art and the valuing of artifice (deception) over realism. Clowes says it needs to be read carefully three or four times. Images and notions and words in your head that mix together and create linkages between each other. Writing david boring was very similar to reading a detective story where you have these clues you need to put together. Putting all of the randomness of the world together. Or: passive and bumbling, petty vengefulness, casual cruelty, arbitrary intervention. The quality of the realistic hero as an outsider. The book is basically about the everyday life of superheroes what a town would be like if superheroes just lived normally together. Lester"s company"s closing is autobiographical to a company shutting down in jon adams" life they shut down over night, owed money and took art.
