Word: eviler
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...violence is at large everywhere, from ground zero and Sarajevo to smaller-scale bloodlettings and betrayals in England. Though Peter figures just occasionally in the story, he will be its primary enigma, a troubled, potentially violent man who leads us to Barker's central quandaries: By what formula can evil be understood? By what means can we avoid being complicit in its schemes? The questions are teased out expertly. Her dialogue is as sharp and spare as ever. But Barker may be too anxious not to frame the answers in obvious strokes. Her tale proceeds intriguingly, only...
...must to avoid. It's anything but. Granted, it has all those things, plus 9/11, Slobodan Milosevic and a good many predatory birds. But it's also the work of the subtle British novelist Pat Barker, whose dry-eyed manner and nuanced view of good and evil made her Regeneration trilogy, about World War I, a triumph. Her spare but still sometimes resplendent writing, her gift for menace--it's all in this book, and it makes you want to follow her even when she gets lost in the tangles of her multiple ambitions...
...version contains no revisionism or lese majeste. On the contrary, it is written with a sort of intelligent reverence and ends by looking at the Churchill and Roosevelt memorials in Westminster Abbey in light filtered through stained-glass windows: "Light from a world Roosevelt and Churchill together delivered from evil...
...Truffaut?s Julie (Catherine Deneuve) has the same curt amorality. When she learns that Louis (Jean-Paul Belmondo) has killed a detective who?s been trailing them, she glances at the corpse and says, ?That?s one bastard less.? When Louis observes that ?You see evil everywhere,? she replies, ?It is everywhere.? Yet Truffaut wants Julie to be an alluring creature, so that Louis? love for her is elevated from masochistic wimpery to amour fou. Or at least amour noir. ?I know what you?re doing,? the ailing Louis tell her toward the end, ?and I don?t care...
...rhetoric seemed similar to that of Bush when he talked about seeing the war in terms of good and evil,” Scheuer said...