The Animal and the Angel: Two Anti-Love Stories
Two dystopian visions explore current fallacies about human love in a culture where flesh and spirit fail to connect.
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Film Fiction Theatre Music PoetryTwo dystopian visions explore current fallacies about human love in a culture where flesh and spirit fail to connect.
Risen, 2016. Directed by Kevin Reynolds.
The Vessel, 2016. Written and Directed by Julio Quintana.
Jérôme Ferrari, The Sermon on the Fall of Rome (MacLehose Press, 2014).
It is intriguing that in a world which celebrates its obliteration of the “superstitious” and “supernatural” in support of the rational, materialistic, and scientific, there should still be an increasing market for the fairytale genre.
Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom, trans. Chi-Young Kim (New York: Knopf, 2011), or Please Look After Mother (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011).
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Tim Gautreaux, Waiting for the Evening News: Stories of the Deep South (Sceptre, 2010).
Eugene Vodolazkin, Laurus, trans. Lisa C. Hayden (London: OneWorld, 2015).
Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, 2015. Directed by J. J. Abrams.