Im not sure if it is so much autistic, as schizoid, but there are connections between the two.
I am half-way through it currently, and here is a brief synopsis:
The narrator is trying to examine why as the story begins he is plagued with having to watch a monstrous image in the mirror. After some thinking he has arrived to the conclusion that the image is not 'real', and has even managed to watch behind it (or rather as the phenomenon of the imaginary self-image had briefly been cancelled) a strikingly different picture, which he views as positive, unlike the one that is normally seen.
The quest to examine why the other, darker, pitiful, miserable, frightening image is the one which appears constantly, is leading to a re-examination of his entire life.
After an ocean of thoughts the conclusions are that he is dealing with the effects of a break-up of his internal world, into positive and negative, and furthermore that the world of the negative is one he had been trying to seperate himself from very early in his life.
He has built a mental ladder, with steps leading further away from the negative world of emotions, and others leading straight into it. However for years he had been managing to distance himself from the negative world, by means of having formed the view that that world was not personal to him but instead something existant in all people. This first logical error in the early years had lead to a horde of others, with the notable stabilization of his theory in the placement of all other people he came into contact with in those steps. Thus an autistic system of belief where external objects had immediate internal symbolisms and places in that ladder was formed, and secured a perpetual split of the negative and the positive world.
The monstrous image in the mirror has been taking unlimited forms, since it had become the border of the negative world (due to the fact that the entire belief system concerning others and the negative world had been forgotten, it now materialised in the image in the mirror, so as to be expressed somehow).
Other main issues in the novel are:
-will to be violent, mental scales linking violence to how one looks
-the formations of mental idols representing other people
-lack of any interest in others without the autistic thought system; inside of it they represent something very important as embodiments of the creatures in each step of the ladder, but outside of it they are something unknown (as in reality they are).
I am currently writing a few pages past 160. I would be interested in reading your views
I am half-way through it currently, and here is a brief synopsis:
The narrator is trying to examine why as the story begins he is plagued with having to watch a monstrous image in the mirror. After some thinking he has arrived to the conclusion that the image is not 'real', and has even managed to watch behind it (or rather as the phenomenon of the imaginary self-image had briefly been cancelled) a strikingly different picture, which he views as positive, unlike the one that is normally seen.
The quest to examine why the other, darker, pitiful, miserable, frightening image is the one which appears constantly, is leading to a re-examination of his entire life.
After an ocean of thoughts the conclusions are that he is dealing with the effects of a break-up of his internal world, into positive and negative, and furthermore that the world of the negative is one he had been trying to seperate himself from very early in his life.
He has built a mental ladder, with steps leading further away from the negative world of emotions, and others leading straight into it. However for years he had been managing to distance himself from the negative world, by means of having formed the view that that world was not personal to him but instead something existant in all people. This first logical error in the early years had lead to a horde of others, with the notable stabilization of his theory in the placement of all other people he came into contact with in those steps. Thus an autistic system of belief where external objects had immediate internal symbolisms and places in that ladder was formed, and secured a perpetual split of the negative and the positive world.
The monstrous image in the mirror has been taking unlimited forms, since it had become the border of the negative world (due to the fact that the entire belief system concerning others and the negative world had been forgotten, it now materialised in the image in the mirror, so as to be expressed somehow).
Other main issues in the novel are:
-will to be violent, mental scales linking violence to how one looks
-the formations of mental idols representing other people
-lack of any interest in others without the autistic thought system; inside of it they represent something very important as embodiments of the creatures in each step of the ladder, but outside of it they are something unknown (as in reality they are).
I am currently writing a few pages past 160. I would be interested in reading your views
*raises hand*.
