Word: pastorale
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There probably weren't really that many murderous hippies running around in the 1960s, but you wouldn't know it from the novels of the past decade. Ever since Merry Levov blew up a post office in Philip Roth's American Pastoral, it has been like one long, literary Altamont...
Next door, Salmar Hussein complains that the CLCs are taking his business. At what first appears to be a travel agency - a desk, a few chairs and a giant mural of a fairy-tale pastoral scene - Hussein runs a real estate business, although he says he hasn't rented or...
If history is a guide, technology may also be fueling our desire for more elemental things. The nature-embracing Romanticism movement of the 18th century was a reaction against the scientific norms of the Age of Enlightenment. And the American transcendentalists championed the pleasures of pastoral life partly in response...
Much of this gratuitous misery can be read as the blackest of comedy, but there are plenty of other dimensions to Yu's writing besides gallows humor. Narrated in the first person by Sun Guanglin, a sensitive and lonesome soul who's trying to make sense of his bizarre childhood...
Living on the edge of hell, I could deal with. (I even thought it might entitle me to a discount on the rent. No chance.) Besides, Hinnom is deceptively pastoral; down in the valley I often see a white stallion grazing under an ancient olive tree. But I wasn't...