As Mary Hood writes in her foreword, "The Sacrilege of Alan Kent is
unique. Comparisons are not odious, they are impossible. There is
nothing like it in any of Caldwell's published works, nor can we
find its example in all of American literature."
Alan Kent is a wanderer, a seeker. Driven by, or fleeing from,
unnamed forces, he struggles against the hardening effects of a
brutal and indifferent world. In a series of episodes, Erskine
Caldwell tells the semiautobiographical story of Kent's childhood,
roving early manhood, and transformation into an artist.
The episodes, which range from brief, graphic sketches to
one-sentence impressions, are filled with elemental images of light
and darkness, blood and water, earth and sky. Although an early
work, "The Sacrilege of Alan Kent" shows readers the poetic
economy, stark naturalism, and concern for the South's poorest
people that became the hallmarks of Caldwell's later work.
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