What an
interesting question! Of course, to deem any part of a literary work as either the worst or
the best is entirely subjective. Nonetheless, in order to offer up opinions on the subject, it
is first important to discuss just whatmeans by the grotesque in this bizarre collection of
short stories.
In the first book of the collection, The Book of the
Grotesque, Anderson introduces the reader to the writer, an old man who has a dream after
climbing into bed one evening. In this dream, he saw a long procession of figures appear while
on the verge of sleep. He describes these figures as all grotesques (22). However, Anderson
goes on to describe the grotesque figures not as all horrible, but rather a rich mix
of...
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