>>81882679 (OP)>In The Atlantic, Garth Greenwell suggested that A Little Life is "the long-awaited gay novel", as "it engages with aesthetic modes long coded as queer: melodrama, sentimental fiction, grand opera>Writing in The New Yorker, Parul Sehgal called Jude "one of the most accursed characters to ever darken a page">Yanagihara states that "one of the things [she] wanted to do with this book was create a protagonist who never got better>Jude's suffering is so extensively documented because it is the foundation of his character>There is evident self-harm in the novel that is depicted in explicit details, with descriptions of how Jude does it and how he feels while doing so>There are truths here that are almost too much to bear - that hope is a qualified thing, that even love, no matter how pure and freely given, is not always enoughWhy are women obsessed with the most morally depraved, evil, suffering porn they can find? Whether it's their abuse literature or true crime they just can't help but be obsessed with endless unstoppable suffering.
Men living through wars, plagues, and other calamities will write about how a person can always find redemption if he chooses to look for beauty and women living through the best time in history will write about how suffering is endless and there's nothing you can do about it. No wonder they're such miserable creatures.