On Wings of Song | Characters
The novel's protagonist, Daniel Weinreb, lives in a society that does not meet his spiritual needs. Disch treats his protagonist ruthlessly; Weinreb endures physical, sexual, spiritual, and intellectual debasement. On Wings of Song has the rambling structure often found in Victorian novels, but Disch is explicit about what is to be learned from the incidents and coincidences that form his story of an indifferent society. Weinreb wants to become a singer so that he may "fly," which in On Wings of Song means to use an electrical apparatus to free the spirit from its body...
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