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excerpts from Writers and Missionaries, 2023, by Adam Shatz, on Richard Wright, strange order: . . . & others, ローラン・バルタース and the “risk” of universality

Wright explored his own “dark landscape,” describing two experiences that lay behind the creation of the novel. The first–an encounter with the “strangely familiar,” an idea that recurs throughout the book–took place in Chicago, shortly before his grandmother’s death in 1934. … he read a book that “miraculously
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“He suddenly turns on her, devours her, bringing down the whole system.” — Catherine Keller & — the perennial production of the cause of its downfall from the conditions which produced the state form

who does? the violent man-emperor who is? that for whom the merchants weep . . . in the porno of the human condition, the market where it is traded as commodity . . . John lists 29 luxury products of Roman world trade from gold, wine, olive oil — to slaves. If the beast signifies imperialist politics,
Simon Taylor