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William Styron

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Chandos the Red, Nov 8, 2006.

  1. Chandos the Red

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    William Styron, one of America's most interesting and powerful authors has passed away. He was a touchstone for many of us who studied Amerecian literature in the late 1980s, and his name was mentioned often regarding the most influential writers among my colleagues at the university.

    After his last book, Darkness Visible, which was about his own personal struggle with depression, he seemed to vanish from the American literary scene. His experiences surrounding the crafting of his masterpiece, Sophie's Choice, seemed to have taken Styron to the farthest limits of the "cutting edge," from which he and a number other writers have never returned, or if they did, were never quite the same. It would seem that there are limits to the suffering of the human soul (as demonstrated in Sophie's Choice), and to stare so long into the "darkness" of suffering can have dire consquences.

    But his message that we must be more than silent witnesses to injustice and the suffering of others remains just as powerful as it did after the Holocaust. We are all connected by our shared humanity, and we share far more in everthing, than we are separated by our differences. William Styron will be missed.

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