If art is our bid to make sense of the senseless, there is hardly
more fertile creative ground than that of the twentieth century.
From the trench poetry of World War I and Holocaust memoirs by
Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel to the post-colonial novels of southern
Asia and the anti-apartheid plays of the South African Market
Theater, writers have married beauty and horror. This ""century of
trauma"" produced writing at once saturated in political violence
and complicated by the ethics of aesthetic representation.
Stretching across genres and the globe, Terrible Beauty charts a
course of aesthetic reconciliation between empathy and evil in the
great literature of the twentieth century. The ""violent
aesthetic""-a category the author traces back to Plato and
Nietzsche-accommodates the pleasure people take not only in
destruction itself but also in its rendering. As readers, we
oscillate between a fascination with atrocity and an ethical
imperative to bear witness. Arguing for the immersive experience of
literature as particularly conducive to ethical contemplation,
Marian Eide plumbs the aesthetic power and ethical purpose of this
creative tension. By invoking the reader as complicit-both stricken
witness and enthralled voyeur- Terrible Beauty sheds new light on
the relationship between violence, literature, and the moral
burdens of art.
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