Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...today's literature, the devil cannot be found. He is everywhere and he is nowhere; for there are few modern evils that have not. been justified in the name of some higher good. In this superb first novel by John Fowles, 37, a schoolteacher in London, evil has seldom found quite so many excuses for itself and for that reason has seldom been so sinister...
Paul R. Barstow, who seems to be settling down permanently into the role of the slightly foolish but good hearted old man, is deft and witty despite a poor start and occasional lapses of memory, but John A. Williams as the devil has problems. His Lucifer is too much a chatty member of the gang rather than its leader. Kerr is enthusiastic and often persuasive, although at times some of his mannerisms from The Mandrake marred his style. David Mills was a warm Irish-American father...
...with the Devil is about bohemians-Italian style. Their credo is: when in Rome, do as the Villagers do. But the painters and their girl friends who live in the Via Margutta are mentally a lot healthier than their MacDougal Street counterparts; they know their limitations. Says one: "In five years, not one of us has become a good painter...
Although the bed-and-beard similarities are inescapable, Run with the Devil is a more ambitious and professional undertaking than Greenwich Village Story. But perhaps to Romans it seems just as silly and unreal...
...Notes also offers some less harrowing dividends. During the Panama campaign, the wanderer reports, "Balboa's dog received the pay of a crossbowman." A Christian named Bohemund "sent to the Greek emperor a cargo of thumbs and noses." In the case of suspected witches or sorcerers, the Devil's mark "will be found under the lip or upon the fundament, if the suspect be a man. Where women are concerned one should meticulously examine the breasts and pudenda...