The Man Comes Around
vedley
Feb 22, 2025 4:49 AM
The old man's fourth major work of traditional literature, if we count the Nobel Lecture, which we should, and easily his most normal. Tarantula is interesting, taken to be unrecorded outtakes, an eyeball into the impressionistic image-making of 60s Dylan, but kinda shit as the poetry it is advertised to be. But Chronicles and the lecture are bullshit classics, self-portraits painted in jet black, partisans of self-imposed and unanswered questions, trading in rampant intertextualism and/or plagiarism and/or fabrication. The mythos of Dylan cannot survive the straightforward introspection autobiography requires, and so it fights back against the very forms it's agreed to write in.
