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...himself a nordestino, and here he again celebrates his brawling frontier city of Ilhéus and its quick-witted, hard-driving people. His big, lusty novel turns on the long land war between Colonel Horacio da Silveira, who is rumored to have sold his soul to the Devil, and the ferocious Badaró brothers, Juca and Sinhõ. Neither Juca nor Colonel Horacio would dream of having a face-to-face showdown in Ilhéus' main street, but each knew that every tree, every clump of bushes, every dark alley might conceal an assassin...
...devil and I'm not a saint. I am a human being with all his contradictions," he told the applauding delegates. Clannish Bavarians, who regard Hamburg publishers as hardly civilized interlopers from the north, may well respond by giving the local boy a handsome mandate in September's elections...
Morris West's best novels merit serious attention because they grapple earnestly with the private truths of religious crisis. The Devil's Advocate approached greatness. It used a fascinating but hypothetical public issue-the ecclesiastical investigation into the life of a possible saint-as backdrop to the private spiritual agony of a middle-aged monsignor dying of cancer. Then West began to tinker dangerously with the balance between private and public; his novels increasingly seemed to offer the inside dope about decisions of state, competing for the attention due the internal truths of spiritual life. The Shoes...
...when life itself has almost been kicked out of him, needs the action, the booze, the orgasm--that inescapable moment--even with the fetid breath of murder and suicide and madness congealing in his nostrils. Even dizzy on the parapet, exhausted in the desert, he pushes on, tracking the devil, hunting out a more ultimate disaster; ready, even on the precipice of collapse, to go the very depths of possible experience...
...Peanuts characters are good mean little bastards," says Al Capp, "eager to hurt each other. That's why they are so delicious. They wound each other with the greatest enthusiasm. Anybody who sees theology in them is a devil worshiper." Maybe so. But there is no doubt that Schulz, a fervent Bible reader, is aware of original sin. He owns up to making his Peanuts mean because he believes that kids are born mean. But by making his characters cruel on occasion, he has also made them believable. They have a dignity and a formality that is touching; children...