Antelope Woman v. White Fang Draft 1 Oct 30

I found it interesting having these two Darwinist expositions, separated by a century, focusing my reading this month, amidst our survivalist experiences

Both books take a look at planetary life from hunter-gatherer perspectives: much Indian lore, much POV from animal eyes.

Each book treats time spans differently: Antelope has specific frames relating to US American Indian history – Fang is timeless, taking memory back to cave-man days, … and nights.

Each push separate themes.  Erdrich espouses mystical, spiritual connections between man and animal, in my opinion, drifting towards Voodoo witchcraft; Fang makes these connections genetically necessary, over a vast expanse of history. 

Each book is colorfully written, using descriptive techniques which, while thoroughly enjoyable and definitely making each author’s efforts prize-winning prose, also evokes the feeling that they are paid by the word.

A clear difference in their prose styles is that Louise tends to be cryptic, whenever she has the chance.  If she can obfuscate a situation, she does, creating as much chaos as she can for the reader, leaving as many possible interpretations of what is happening as there are people connected to the scene.  

Jack London on the other hand is a fledgling scientist, always searching for the easiest solution to explain what is happening.  Occam's razor before we knew what it was [13^th Century].

I would describe “White Fang” as a memoir of Fang’s life and adventures, with an omniscient narrator.  Antelope Woman is a spumoni novel told with a disjointed approach that borders on wacko.