And, some psychoanalysts say, our fascination with celebrities as well as our need to diminish them is its own kind of narcissistic narrative, including grandiose heights and abject humiliation.
And perhaps McCarthy's primary purpose after all is to expose as an empty delusion the bourgeois reader's pitiable need for alluring characters, emotional heights and narrative closure.
What if we had a chance to live life "again and again, until we finally did get it right?" In the early pages, this preoccupation with "getting it right" inspires quite dizzying heights of narrative suspense.
Building on the worldwide blockbuster success of Fast Five and taking the action, stunts and narrative to even greater heights, Fast & Furious 6 sees director Justin Lin back behind the camera for the fourth time.
He wrote dramas, lyric poetry, short stories, essays, and children's verse, but his naturalistic novels chronicling contemporary Galician society and his long narrative poems mark the height of his literary achievement.
This game and its sequel really pushed the storytelling on the NES to new heights, with narrative-driven levels and detailed cut scenes in between.
A story this far-flung relies upon Adrian's sophisticated grasp of the timeworn imperative Write What You Know, which enables the narrative to achieve its supernatural heights without losing readers along the way.
These are touched on repeatedly: in several more references to Melville's "Bartleby"; in an account of how Hardy "stopped writing novels himself after finishing 'Jude the Obscure' and while he was at the height of his narrative genius," and in several of Noonan's comments about himself.
In the main narrative he frequently reaches the same heights, with the novel's symphonic structure and motifs marred only, perhaps, by the lachrymose portentousness of some later passages.
If his narrative doesn't reach Humbert Humbert's heights of fancy and self‑loathing, or Kinbote's baroque mania, Perina's story remains both striking and highly satisfying.
