Word: epigraphes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bulgakov's last irony is a tortured one supported by an epigraph from Goethe's Faust, to the effect that the Devil is the force that "wills forever evil yet does forever good." The Communist road of good intentions gives way to the hell of Soviet reality; this is Bulgakov's message-the essence of his "slander...
...epigraph, the author quotes Dylan Thomas' splendid hymn to his dying father: "Do not go gentle into that good night. / Old age should burn and rave at close of day; / Rage rage against the dying of the light. . . ." Perhaps Simone de Beauvoir's rage against death was, as it explicitly was for Dylan Thomas, a form of prayer...
...plot is not the point. Buechner was concerned with destiny, not destinations, and Woyzeck, sensitively played by Heinrich Schweiger, is a lyric dirge to bruised humanity. The play is as durable and compassionate as the line that might have served as its epigraph: "Every man is an abyss, and you get dizzy looking into...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...Bottom? A clue to Novelist Johnson's intentions is the title, which is given in the epigraph as from M.N.D., Act II. If the clue is followed up, it will be found that Pryar and all the characters at Cobb comprise the cast of a Midsummer Night's Dream in modern academic dress with Cobb's Boosie House as Theseus' Palace and the New Hampshire forests as "a wood near Athens...