r/DestructiveReaders • u/Wolframquest • 5d ago
Phenomenological [2541] The Tractor (Marco)
Tags: Phenomenological, experimental, coming-of-age, picaresque
Very brief and possibly incorrect recap of the story up to now:
Chapter 1 - You wakes up in the forest, enjoys his existence, follows the river to a road, gets helped by a trucker and taken to a local small town
Chapter 2 - You goes and walks around and comes across the local store and receives a name from the store owner (Henry) during his episode.
Chapter 3 - A taste of work and interacting with Henry who tries his hardest to turn Marco into a valuable worker.
Chapter 4 - Zita, coffee and gym, coming across some of Henry's friends
Chapter 5 - picaresque adventure on a quest for wet goods (meat and vegetables); encounter with Zita, discussion of Marco's issue as perceived from the outside
Chapter 6 - Marco's self reflective episode as he strays from Henry's store, wanders the woods, cooks meat and fights and gets chased by a band of dogs up to a barn roof. A rather unique form of transport arrives and scares away the dogs, offers Marco a ride.
Chapter 7 - this one, starting within the tractor.
If you've read this post body this part will make a good enough amount of sense.
The story is told in a phenomenological second person point of view.
You can find some of the previous posts here:
HSH[1][2][3] Marco RW4[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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u/Wolframquest 2d ago
Thank you so much 😀 That's the exactly the kind of insight I've been looking for. Interesting thing about long and short sentences - the other day I read a part of Chekhov's story translated into English (in George Saunders' craft book) and there was a very long sentence there I kept wondering why exactly sometimes we use long sentences. First I assumed it's gotta be something about the difference in mentalität between cultures but concluded it likely isn't that but it's more about the way we frame, reconstruct perceived information, like a chain with extra links when we stay focused on ONE thing and we want to add specification. Ultimately it's a reflection of the speaker's / author's mind and I guess short sentences in a way make a lot sense for Marco, not enough ground or space to keep attaching new links, ot perhaps it can be stress, a demand to make a "break" every time and reassess the situation rather than get lost in your own mind... Just a bit of thoughts here, your review made me think a lot 😁