The New Romantics: A Literary Analysis

The New Romantics by Richard Marranca has provided readers with multiple stories dealing with fiction on a deeper yet more meaningful level. Out of the many stories I decided to choose the three that stood out to me the most. The three stories I chose to write about are Coffin K, Roxana & the Naked Philosopher, and Burning Buddhist. Each one of these stories reveals the deep connections people can make with others or certain things which affect their own lives greatly. In Richard Marranca’s The New Romantics, Coffin K, Roxana & the Naked Philosopher, and Burning Buddhist all reveal the deeper connections people have based off of their knowledge, experience, and true feelings.
Coffin K by Richard Marranca was about a man, and woman who connected …show more content…
They were both from two totally different places, and were different in terms of the yogi being an old man and Roxana being a young queen. The yogi had taught her breathing techniques and postures in which would help her conquer the world of senses. He said “It is said that with sight, the soul sees; with breath, the soul breathes,” (Marranca 20). After this they began to speak about what they knew based on their age, and actually began to argue due to the disagreements on certain terms. The yogi’s issue is that although he was an older man and knew a lot, it was as if he did not want to believe that Roxana knew just as much, maybe even more than what he did, making them disagree. They would disagree so much to the point where she threatened him with a dagger or sent the guards in to take him away, although she’d dismiss them once they arrived. Critical thinking could have played a role for yogi if he were to sit back and continue asking her more questions about what she knew so he could get educated on the things he was unaware of or disagreed with. But after their arguing, they laughed together and Roxana began to dance. Yogi was amazed, he could hear the music within her soul, and saw how free she was while dancing. That is when he could not help but dance with her, the he felt possessed, as if his body had been taken over and he said it only happened to him a …show more content…
The parrot would not go near anyone but the monk, and the man would question to himself why. Since this man decided to stay at this hotel for a while week, he ended up learning about the monk and things that he never would have thought of. It was known to this man that Arun was one who taught meditation and then more, that kind of “more” that was the deeper connection to our world and what goes on in it. The owner of the hotel’s grandson ended up telling the man, Jason that Arun had poured gasoline on himself and lit himself on fire just to prove a point during war. Since Jason heard the story, he could not stop thinking about it. Many questioned ran through his head, but he never actually took action on those questions and asked the monk why he did that or why he does what he does. That is the issue with his character, he wanted to ask but he did not act upon it. Critical thinking would help Jason a lot with his situation because he had those questions to act, but not the answers. Jason could not get Arun lighting himself on fire off of his mind. Before he left the hotel, he spoke to him one more time about the parrot. The monk would not capture it like anyone else would, he believed that the parrot would come down, and it will be free of captivity or harm. But Jason left saying “in the cab, I looked at the Victorian