BOOKS - Europe After the Rain
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Europe After the Rain
Author: Alan Burns
Year: 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.3 MB
Language: English
Year: 2019
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 1.3 MB
Language: English
Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernsts surrealist work which depicts a vision of rampant destruction a theme which Burns here takes to its conclusion showing man not merely trying to come to terms with desolation but combating human cruelty with that resilience of spirit without which survival would be impossible The Europe through which the unnamed narrator travels is a devastated world twisted and misshapen both geographically and morally and he is forced to witness terrible sights to which he brings an interested apathy without ever succumbing to despair or cynicism Upon the novels first publication Burns was heralded as presenting a picture of his age and capturing the collective unconscious of the twentieth century in a language that can have few rivals for economy beauty and rhythm His austere sentences glow with intelligence colour and force and evoke a powerful image for the modern reader of fears every bit as relevant today as on the day when they were written
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