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...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A chilling and brilliant exploration of the mind and life of the mad, messianic Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion...
...closet. So they demand an authority, somebody older, to lead them into life. At first it's the Mother in Our Mother's House. A boy picks up her Bible-quoting habit and throws verses at his siblings. A little girl combs her mother's hairpiece like a slave, then cultivates her own pigtail. These same little saints, when Charlie becomes their authority, take up cigarettes and twist in the halls. The Bible-quoter turns purveyor of whorish wisdom: "Men have their vices...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. A chilling and brilliant exploration of the mind and life of the mad, messianic Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion...
...CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER, by William Styron. This brilliant, brooding "meditation on history" takes the reader into the heart of the Virginia slave who led a bloody rebellion...
With the framework of an insurrection and trial, it would have been easy for Styron to produce an intense novel that maintained a delirious pitch throughout. What he has done, however, is to create imaginative visions and recollectons within the mind of the doomed slave and yet present the poignancy of the recent massacres and the impending execution. Styron is a great stylist and a perfectionist, but he certainly is not guilty of trying to present a cosmic view of the South or the declining prosperity of Virginia Tidewater. Criticisms of Styron's use of Nat's memory to describe...