Elif Batuman’s Either/Or makes you question your artistic lifestyle
And we’re just starting to question it now, but I mean, you don’t actually have to be a horrible person to make great art. And where would you even get that idea? It’s an idea that only a certain kind of very broken man would actually have. Simone de Beauvoir writes about in The Ethics of Ambiguity, which I would send people to read if they want to know if they should live an ethical or an aesthetic life.
Right. This structure you attack the world with, which at that age you think, “I’ve got it”. Right? “This is the way to see the world.” And everything seems to fit in those categories. And what you don’t realize is your structure is totally screwed, but you have an engaged mind and you’re putting things in categories, so you feel like you, and we’re talking about Harvard here, so you feel like you are really engaged in what you’re supposed to be there for.
And she sees, without giving it away, she’s testing this aesthetic life theory through the book, and she is a different person at the end of it. Her learning process reaches a conclusion closer to the one that you articulated earlier about the kind of falseness of this dichotomy.Oh, I think a little bit. Yeah. Maybe not completely.
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