Europe after the Rain takes its title from Max Ernst's surrealist
work, which depicts a vision of rampant destruction - a theme which
Burns here takes to its conclusion, showing man not merely trying
to come to terms with desolation, but combating human cruelty with
that resilience of spirit without which survival would be
impossible. The Europe through which the unnamed narrator travels
is a devastated world, twisted and misshapen, both geographically
and morally, and he is forced to witness terrible sights, to which
he brings an interested apathy, without ever succumbing to despair
or cynicism. Upon the novel's first publication, Burns was heralded
as presenting a picture of his age and capturing the `collective
unconscious' of the twentieth century - in a language that can have
few rivals for economy, beauty and rhythm. His austere sentences
glow with intelligence, colour and force, and evoke a powerful
image for the modern reader of fears every bit as relevant today as
on the day when they were written.
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