Word: evil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LADY OF THE FLOWERS, by Jean Genet. Written in prison, this first novel by the author of The Blacks is part scatology, part pornography, and a monstrous, well-sustained literary diary of a man's single-minded pursuit of evil in search of his own soul...
...philosopher is concerned with an abstract question: what happens to reason and morality in an evil world...
Neither Kennedy nor Khrushchev is willing to embrace the other, but each will at least shake Marshall Tito's hand. By such a gesture Kennedy is able to say tacitly that Communism is not the unmitigated evil it was once thought to be, that some Communist rulers are acceptable to him, and that America's reluctance to liberate the Eastern European "captive nations" does not mean abandoning them to slavery. Premier Khruschev, by his long and amiable visit to Yugoslavia a few months ago, santioned a looser, less ideological, and less beligerent bloc...
Betti's underpainting enriches his narrative line with spiritual significance. Just as the man who journeys to the end of the night finds day, so Cust in his single-minded pursuit of evil finds his soul, and in that soul a damning consciousness of his own sin. Just as the world, symbolized by the court, cannot cleanse itself, being innately corrupt, so Cust the sinner cannot save himself. He needs to be redeemed by innocent blood and forgiven through the gratuitous gift of love to the totally unworthy. Elena, the symbol of this grace, performs the dual function...
...real and imagined forms confront her to weave with their dance the tangle of her quiet doom. In Circe, Graham turns Ulysses' odyssey into an inner event, a flight of the imagination in which enchantment is only a prelude to bestiality, and anguish is the only alternative to evil...