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Loved The Immobilized Hero
Charles Willeford writes: "The pattern of the immobilized hero was established in NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND and it has remained that way with variations ever since. For on and on the immobilized man writes; writing whether he has anything interesting or valid to say or not; writing because he’s compelled to write because he’s an artist. Paradoxes and ambiguities these are the artifacts with which the immobilized man worries his pages and befuddles the general reader. The general theme that the immobilized man shares in common is clear enough; the frenetic and impossible attempt to escape from self, from personality, into a freedom that simply does not exist. As Kafka puts it the immobilized man is looking for a way out and almost anything imaginable is suggested as a way to escape the locked-in inescapable self ..."
"... the immobilized hero lives alone, usually in a single room in a private home or a depersonalized hotel room. The immobilized man is usually a bachelor or a man who had been unable to adjust with any degree of success to a conjugal arrangement. So he lives alone by choice. The American immobilized man because of our affluence usually has better living conditions than his European counterpart although he shares the same desire for austerity. The immobilized man cannot, for any one of a dozen reasons, abide living with his immediate family or distant relatives ... the immobilized hero has a sense of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness in his isolation from relatives and friends. Although he is in a static condition, he is free to the extent that he’s the only person who knows the true nature of reality. Whether he is a successful artist or a failure as an artist when this is his vocation, avocation, or desired role, the fact that he fancies himself as an artist of some kind, sets him above and apart from his fellow men ..." from New Forms of Ugly: The Immobilized Hero in Modern Fiction (1964) by Charles Willeford
Listening to this in the Audible version of Willeford’s WRITING & OTHER BLOOD SPORTS, I loved the concept of the Immobilized Man in literature. This Audible version (a print or Kindle version seems to be unavailable) is a master class in writing.
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