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As Fyodor Dostoyevsky proves in The Idiot, being perfect is not a good case. “Why can’t I be perfect – a good, all-loving human being who helps everyone unselfishly?” we might ask ourselves during these uneasy times. ![]() Some people may question if they are a good or bad person, especially if hungover or after cutting someone off in traffic. "The Idiot" (1958) - a scene where Prince Myshkin arrives in Russia from Switzerland, where he had been treated from epilepsy. ![]() ![]() ![]() Betty McCabe and Maggie Atwood are two women (Daughter and mother) who form the two prongs of the trinity, the third being Maggie’s mother Caroline Atwood – the matriarch of this horse-loving family. Patterson ventures into new territory, a dramatic story of two women Horse riders. 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Richard Wright : Critical Perspectives Past and Present / Edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Set in Chicago in the 1930s, Richard Wrights powerful novel is an unsparing. ![]() Narrated by a man whose light skin enables him to "pass" for white, the novel describes a journey through the strata of black society at the turn of the century from a cigar factory in Jacksonville to an elite gambling club in New York, from genteel aristocrats to the musicians who hammered out the rhythms of ragtime. Author, Richard Wright, Peter Francis James. Republished in 1927, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance, with an introduction by Carl Van Vechten, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man became a groundbreaking document of Afro-American culture the first first-person novel ever written by a black, it became an eloquent model for later novelists ranging from Zora Neale Hurston to Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. First published anonymously in 1912, this resolutely unsentimental novel gave many white readers their first glimpse of the double standard and double consciousness that ruled the lives of black people in modern America. ![]() |
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