Word: infernale
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Trying to convert the past into fiction is no small act of faith either. The historical novelist must believe that he can be adequately inspired by old documents when, in fact, his imagination is better served by direct experience. Moore cites as his sources eyewitness reports and church records used...
The frame also has its uses for artists looking to make abstract work more articulate. Two years ago, Robert Morris began showing a series of white bas-relief works that seemed to vent nuclear anxieties in a visual language of medieval fatalism. Embedded in an infernal slurry of plaster, human...
When war strikes, Michael K flees burned-out Cape Town on foot, wheeling his sick mother Anna in an improvised wheelbarrow. Their ordeal is infernal. Hounded by the police and by thieves, the pair get as far as a hospital, where Anna dies. Michael K is stripped of his money...
But rather than sad, Rose's obsession has always made some people mad. The thing is, Rose won't even walk when he gets a walk. At an All-Star Game several years ago, Aaron was berating Joe Morgan over what an infernal hot dog Rose was, and...
Much of Forsaking All Others will be read with a measure of disbelief. On the other hand, the public has been so saturated with the pornography of violence and infernal visions of the underclass that there may be little disbelief left. Breslin plays to this possibility with a stylistic naturalism...