Word: incest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stubby, broad-beamed ketch a year before. Originally named the "Soubrette" (meaning "handmaiden"), it was rechristened by Davis the "Miru," who according to a Polynessian legend is the daughter of the Sun God. She had eight brothers, all of whom were commanded by the sun God to commit incest with her; other than her mother, Miru unfortunately was the only woman on the earth at the time. Miru produced the ancestors of the Polynessian race...
...writes in German and is Englished by one of the world's best translators, Mrs. H. T. Lowe-Porter) holds gloomy views about the world's future, but suppressed the gloom in his new book. The Holy Sinner was an urbane story about a child born of incest who becomes pope, a medieval tale that Mann embellished with touches of Freud and assorted ironic mockeries. Another prophet of gloom stuck to his pessimism. In The Age of Longing, Arthur Koestler saw a cynical Europe doomed to war, unwillingly tied to a U.S. it could not respect. Like many...
...believes in a deepening darkness, he is not the man to write about it. In his new novel (his 13th), he fastens lovingly on the past-a past of piety and chivalry. The Holy Sinner is his reworking of a much-told medieval tale: a child is born of incest, lives to sin gravely on his own account, but finally, thanks to God's mercy and his own heroic penance, becomes the Pope of Rome. One of Mann's reasons for going back to the old legendary story: his notion that; after him, there may be nobody...
...England family; his characters never speak for themselves, their earthly selves, but always for their symbolic selves, and for the author.) The son returns and stirs up the maelstrom of hatred and misunderstanding which is basic in his family. His eldest brother hates him; his sister commits incest with the eldest brother in the course of trying to persuade him to be reconciled with the prodigal; the second son, a parson, wrestles in agony with the problem of what to tell his flock about the prodigal's return; the father and mother are incorrigibly domestic and fail utterly to grasp...
Darkness and Day is modeled pretty much on the same plan as every other Compton-Burnett novel (this is her twelfth). Incest, illegitimacy and the pangs of growing old are merely the convenient props for her main interest: what a variegated cast of characters have to say about life & death and each other...