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...ULLMANN: I think it is up for anyone to guess. I have made the choice not to look upon it as incest. I don't really think it is. I think it is just a clumsy, horrible way of trying to get close to somebody. But there are people who do see that it may be also the description of incest...
...enriched the European period between the wars and provided some naughty parts. The novelist's great-grandmother Nina von Korf continued a love affair with Dmitri Nabokov, the novelist's grandfather, after he became her son-in-law. This, according to Field, accounts for the theme of incest in books like Ada and Lolita, a reversal of family history in which "the man marries the daughter in order to be able to continue more easily to be her mother's lover." As a gossip, Field has it both ways. Nabokov's grandmother Maria and Alexander II "must have been fleeting...
...Giamatti. "I enjoy being in those things." One of them, Duets, a 2000 karaoke-road-trip killing-spree film that the New York Times said "flops around like a carp on the kitchen floor," was actually not bad enough for his taste. "In the script there was bloodshed and incest and karaoke. I thought, This is great!" He sighs: "They ruined it in the edit...
...Unkindness of Ravens (Pantheon; 245 pages; $15.95) by Ruth Rendell marries the two disparate strains in her writing: the slow psychological disintegration of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and conventional detection by kindly Chief Inspector Reg Wexford and his younger deputy Mike Burden. The plot involves bigamy and incest and probes the links between feminism and lesbianism. As is almost always true in a Rendell narrative, things are considerably simpler than they at first seem. Her portrait of the killer is a classic Christie-style evocation of narcissistic...
...rule of silence], like the Mafia," says Jacques Monier, who represents 11 of the children. "Now, there are children who regret denouncing their parents. They think it's their fault that they are on trial." Reconstructing the children's lives will be essential in breaking the cycle of incest that has endured in many of the families for generations. "This will be a very, very complicated task and will take many years," says Pierre-André Julié, a psychoanalyst in Angers. The children's wounds run deep. And like those of Angers, they will take a long time...