Volume 48, Number 1 · January 11, 2001
A Chorus of Cruelty
By Tim Parks
'Cruelty,' wrote Emil Cioran, 'is a sign of election, at least in literature. The more talented a writer is, the more ingeniously he puts his characters in situations from which there is no escape; he persecutes them, he tyrannizes them, he traps them in dead ends, he forces them to run the whole gamut of their agony.'
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