Word: grotesquesness
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Accidental Justice. Two characters are among the best grotesques in Greene's entire waxworks. Conder is the archetype of the author's army of squalid journalists -a wretch so practiced at sleazy sleight-of-mind that, although he is a bachelor, he tells everyone that he has a...
As is to be expected in a Greene novel, love persists among God's grotesques. A leper with ghastly mutilations mates with another who crawls like a wounded toad to her rendezvous. Says one of the White Fathers: "Sometimes I think God was not entirely serious when he gave...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but...
Each book of the quartet has been weaker than the one before. But this is as much a tribute to the first volume, Justine, as a criticism of the others, for it is hard to see how the febrile excitement and verbal surprise of Justine could have been maintained. In...
Strange Household. When Author Wolfe, newly out of Yale, first encountered him in January 1937, Trotsky had just joined Mexico's impressive gallery of grotesques, and later did, in fact, figure in Mexico City's waxworks museum (wearing tweed knickerbockers), along with Emperor Maximilian and Mahatma Gandhi. Author...