This is a pretty vague statement especially as OP mentioned fiction. Not some book espousing his political views.
You can pick most of the great authors and find a character or scene that was obscene, but it would be unfair to cherry pick 2-3 sentences, post them on twitter and pretend this represented them.
> This is a pretty vague statement especially as OP mentioned fiction. Not some book espousing his political views.
The book in question is a memoir by Antonio Garcia Martinez from what I’ve read. While there’s an argument to be made that even memoir and non-fiction are in a way fiction, this wasn’t an outright work of fiction. It contained misogynistic statements you’d expect to be true to how the author thinks because of the context of the work.
Unreliable narrators are a known literary concept for a reason. Combine that with, isn't all fiction reflective of the author and thus narrative in some capacity? And you're about halfway there.
We're talking about a particular person and a particular book -- Chaos Monkeys -- and it was non-fiction, and a memoir. Fiction I would imagine would be given more leeway, but I guess we'll have to see when it comes up.
This is a pretty vague statement especially as OP mentioned fiction. Not some book espousing his political views.
You can pick most of the great authors and find a character or scene that was obscene, but it would be unfair to cherry pick 2-3 sentences, post them on twitter and pretend this represented them.