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(1930s) The Death Of The Heart
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Books
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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The Death Of The Heart
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<p>(January 30, 1939)
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<p> The most gifted living women novelists are Virginia Woolf,
Willa Cather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Elizabeth Bowen. Among
these, the most promising future belongs to Elizabeth Bowen.
With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart tells a
story as old as wickedness: the world's betrayal of innocence.
But Elizabeth Bowen also introduces a provocative interaction:
the world's discomfiture at the hands of the innocent. One
paragraph condenses the pattern of the simple there:
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<p> "Innocence so constantly finds itself in a false position
that inwardly innocent people learn to be disingenuous...The
system of our affections is too corrupt for them. They are bound
to blunder, then to be told they cheat. In love, the sweetness
and violence they have to offer involves a thousand betrayals
for the less innocent...The innocent are so few that two of them
seldom meet--when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all
round."</p>
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