Hurrah for Junot!

I was just about to leave a post about our very own selection winning the prestigious pulitzer! It actually made me feel very proud, very intellectual and like our club really lives up to its name. I also felt happy that the pulitzer recognized this young, fresh, somewhat unconventional use of voice and language - very exciting and progressive and hopeful. now if we could only get this convo going....

i do think that the issue of voice and perspective is a very rich topic in this novel and could inspire much discussion (as noted in my original comment to lindsay's post on the topic). I still have some reading to do, but i am at the section after Beli's story, where we have returned to the somewhat present, the first-person narrator has emerged and is college roommates with Oscar. This is a bit off topic, but i was started to be very curious about how closely aligned our narrator is with Junot himself. I cannot help but thinking that i am really hearing Junot's voice through our narrators, though i know this is a common fallacy. Nonetheless, i like to indulge it. My latest theory is that Junot is actually a mix between our narrator and oscar - or that they represents the two different sides of his personality/experience, or maybe even a fantasy/reality junot, like the narrator is more like a shadow figure to oscar/junot (a la Brad Pitt to Ed Norton in Fight Club). Food for thought.