You can find it hereNick Smith's excursion into the literary arena represents a pivotal moment for American culture and civilization. In creating his novel, "The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters", Smith throws out all conventional ways and approaches to artistic expression and replaces them with new structures and processes of analyzing the age-old problematic thoughts brought about by human conflict, identity and belonging.
Smith manages to do this by utilizing a multi-disciplinary, consilient approach (which Faulkner would be proud of) by synthesising elements of American popular culture such as roleplaying games and super powers. In Sartre's existentialist tradition, Smith utilizes the elements available in his times and environment to revalidate and giving meaning to what had become a meager existence, while at the same time elevating & liberating the rest of humanity to another level of meaningful existence.
Examples of this new paradigm of human expression abound in this ouevre. From the cover, which shows our protagonist manipulating the spheres which symbolize the possibility of humanity's ability to break away from the circular oppression that enslave us all and prevent us from leading a truly meaningful existence, to his aptly named chapter, "A pizza break" which utilizes his hunger for degreased cheese pizzas as a metaphor for the conflict between a superficial and unfulfilling material existence and a meaningful and rich human spiritual existence. This truly is a paradigmatic change that T. Kuhn would find exemplary.
This is a seminal must for any one's reading collection, for it is destined to be a classic and the topic of scholarly and intellectual discussions for quite some time.
Five stars is not enough to show the importance of this novel. Perhap all the stars in the Ursa Major constellation would be more fitting.
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