Word: beggaring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...BEGGAR IN JERUSALEM by Elie Wiesel, translated from the French by Lily Edelman and the author. 21 1 pages. Random House...
Untrustworthy Words. Despite his own eloquence and the book's interlocking questions, Wiesel distrusts words. "They destroy what they aim to describe," Katriel says. "By enveloping the truth they end up taking its place." Questioning silences, Wiesel suggests in A Beggar, can be more trustworthy. They do not curtail explorations with limiting answers. Wiesel has observed elsewhere that "art must be a result of cumulative silences. The silences must become so full that they finally break out. Then you start writing...
...really useful (nothing to complain about, as some have) to think of Let it Bleed as a re-done version of Beggar's Banquet . Track by track the songs from each correspond but in the later album they are all operating at a distinctly higher level of stagecraft and awareness, making it as transcendentally mellow as the first was strung-out and earthbound. Not that I'm putting down Beggar's Banquet in the slightest . It's just that having once lavished its spiritual miseries upon us the Stones had no graceful direction left to go but up. The next...