Its Own Dark Styx
Marina Warner
- The Nature of Blood by Caryl Phillips
Faber, 224 pp, £15.99, February 1997, ISBN 0 571 49833 7
‘Memory says: Want to do right? Don’t count on me.’ So writes Adrienne Rich in a poem from An Atlas of a Difficult World, opening an unpunctuated sequence of horrors: lynchings, pogroms, Auschwitz, Berlin, Palestine, Israel:
You are not logged in
- If you have already registered please login here
- If you are using the site for the first time please register here
- If you would like access to all 12,000 articles subscribe here
- Institutions or university library users please login here
- Learn more about our institutional subscriptions here
Vol. 19 No. 6 · 20 March 1997 » Marina Warner » Its Own Dark Styx (print version)
pages 23-24 | 2369 words