My Present Age | Social Concerns
An epigraph from Seren Kierkegaard encapsulates the social and philosophic tenor of My Present Age: "But the present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence." This is an age of fragmented families — the narrator's parents have retired to a mobile-home park near Brownsville, Texas. His estranged wife, Victoria, having walked out months ago, leaves Ed in a postlapsarian phase — something he wryly calls "that paradis perdu" when he feels a victim of "the Great Persecution" by an irascible old neighbor and the thudding banalities of...
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