Word: ararat
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...ARARAT by D.M. Thomas Viking; 191 pages...
...collaboration, a translation if you like . . . plagiarism is a different matter," declares a character in Ararat. D.M. Thomas has set out to prove that dictum. In The White Hotel, his collaborative efforts were a critical and popular success. That novel began as an ingenious imitation of a case history by Freud, then moved to an account of the Nazi massacre of Jews at Babi Yar, originally written by a Russian novelist, Anatoli Kuznetsov. But what was an effective device in The White Hotel has become a conceit in Ararat. The density of literary allusion in Thomas' latest novel...
This is the connection, the pulse that Thomas sees in Ararat. Art is the medium through which the order and connections in the universe may be revealed. As Surkov says to Finn...
Thomas has done more even than that. He has man aged to translate the chaotic and powerful world of the subconscious to the more accessible arena of art. With Ararat, he brings creativity, death, the horror of history and the flow of psychology together under the microscope. And for one brief moment he brings the pulse, the tie that binds, into focus...
...subject of Ararat is art, for that peculiar pulse is nothing it not creativity is nothing if not the urge to live. D.M. THOMAS...