Robert Stone's decadent leftists.

Papers on Language & Literature | June 22, 1996| | Copyright

That "the best lack all conviction while the worst are filled with passionate intensity"(1) -- Yeat's conclusion early in this century -- continues to apply, although now the best are bigger wimps, and the worst are more murderous. To Robert Stone the disintegration of a viable left apparently figures in this decline. Standing at the center of nearly every Stone novel is a marginalized character who may once have identified with the left but then lost faith, turned cynical, yet remains conversant with left-wing issues. These characters are political junkies, often literally, ...

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