“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.”

— Al Alvarez

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The Savage God (1971)

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English poet, novelist, essayist and critic 1929–2019

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