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Bali-Hoo |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Guneli Gun |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 7/1/1992 |
| Size: 2,961 Words, 17,070 Characters |
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THE PAINTED ALPHABET
Diana Darling
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992
224 pp., $19.95
Diana Darling, a practicing sculptor who lives in Bali, says of a sculptured head she calls Some Syllable that it was "an attempt to make the most beautiful head I could." One suspects that The Painted Alphabet, too, is Darling's attempt to make the most beautiful book she is capable of imagining. This reviewer, not being an art critic, is not in a position to judge whether the sculpted head is indeed beautiful, but in fiction (an art Darling is new to) an attempt at the "beautiful" all too often purges the work of depth, saps its strength, and compromises its honesty, reducing it to a rich surface, or an object, that is indubitably very "pretty."
The Painted Alphabet is based on an ...
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...ll be acceptable to her own sensibilities. Looking at Balinese art, one can see the Balinese are no strangers to radical evil or the triteness of depravity. Nor is it a culture uneasy at acknowledging that every living being lives on the death of another living being, and that when you eradicate "evil," which is that "nasty" part of you that you are unable to accept, you eradicate yourself. vbcrlf
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