The Never-Ending Wrong
by Katherine Anne Porter
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Provides a context for the days leading up to the execution of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.Tags
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Reason read: American author challenge/Katherine Anne Porter and this is the last of her written work. It is essentially a essay or a small memoir of an event in history that she participated in; the Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti case. They were Italian anarchists who were convicted and executed for the 1920 robbery and murder of a shoe factory paymaster and guard in South Braintree, Massachusetts. This divided the nation with many protests because it was felt the trial was not fair. To this day, it really is unknown if they were guilty, if one was guilty or none.
Quotes:
"It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page--they are no longer even history".
"...never-never-land of the show more theoretically classless society which could not take root and finally withered ont he stalk."
"...I knew too well that this whole protest was the work of a complicated machine or a set of machines working together even if not always intentionally or with the same motives, and we were all of us being put rather expertly through set paces by distant operators, unknown manifulators whose motives and designs were far different from outs."
"I find that any recollections however vivid and lasting, must unavoidably be mixed with many afterthoughts."
This is in the afterwards and is in reference to Emma Gordon (Radical Activist Among Progressive Reformers) and Prince Kropotkin.
"...cause to which they devoted their lives--to ameliorate the anguish that human beings inflict on each other, the never-ending wrong, forever incurable."
"She finally came to admit sadly that the human race in its weakness demands government and all government was evil because human nature was basically weak and weakness is evil."
I found it was interesting and I thought about how some of this reflects even our current times. I again and again am reminded that what goes around comes around. There is nothing new under the sun. show less
Quotes:
"It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page--they are no longer even history".
"...never-never-land of the show more theoretically classless society which could not take root and finally withered ont he stalk."
"...I knew too well that this whole protest was the work of a complicated machine or a set of machines working together even if not always intentionally or with the same motives, and we were all of us being put rather expertly through set paces by distant operators, unknown manifulators whose motives and designs were far different from outs."
"I find that any recollections however vivid and lasting, must unavoidably be mixed with many afterthoughts."
This is in the afterwards and is in reference to Emma Gordon (Radical Activist Among Progressive Reformers) and Prince Kropotkin.
"...cause to which they devoted their lives--to ameliorate the anguish that human beings inflict on each other, the never-ending wrong, forever incurable."
"She finally came to admit sadly that the human race in its weakness demands government and all government was evil because human nature was basically weak and weakness is evil."
I found it was interesting and I thought about how some of this reflects even our current times. I again and again am reminded that what goes around comes around. There is nothing new under the sun. show less
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Katherine Anne Porter is known for her subtle and delicate perception; her careful, disciplined technique; and her precision of word and phrase. She wrote slowly and with restraint but achieved an impression of ease and naturalness that is close to perfection. She was born in Texas, schooled in Louisiana convents, and, working as a newspaper show more reporter and freelance journalist, traveled to such places as Paris, Majorca, Berlin, Vienna, and Mexico. Her Collected Stories (1965), which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1966, was written over a long lifetime. It includes works that have been a standard part of high school and college literature courses for a half-century. Among the best are "Noon Wine," "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall," and "Flowering Judas." "Pale Horse, Pale Rider," long enough to be considered a novelette, is one of several stories about a character named Miranda who as a girl and young woman undergoes experiences not unlike those of Porter. Other Miranda stories are "Old Mortality" and a group of seven gathered under the title "The Old Order" that deal with her childhood. Her one and only full-length novel, Ship of Fools (1962), 20 years in the writing, "is the story of a voyage... . A novel of character rather than of action, it has as its main purpose a study of the German ethos shortly before Hitler's coming to power in Germany... ."Ship of Fools' is also a human comedy and a moral allegory" (New Yorker). To some critics, the book was a disappointment, but all recognized its importance and it appeared on the bestseller list for 28 weeks in 1962. "In my view," wrote Robert Penn Warren in a tribute published in Saturday Review after Porter's death in 1980, "the final importance of Katherine Anne Porter is not merely that she has written a number of fictions which have enlarged and deepened the nature of the story, both short and long, in our time, but that she has created an oeuvre---a body of work including fiction, essays, letters, and journals---that bears the stamp of a personality, distinctive, delicately perceptive, keenly aware of the depth and darkness of human experience, delighted by the beauty of the world and the triumphs of human kindness and warmth, and thoroughly committed to a quest for meaning in the midst of the ironic complexities of man's lot." Much of the nonfictional part of that body of work was gathered into The Collected Essays and Occasional Writings of Katherine Anne Porter. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Never-Ending Wrong
- Original title
- The Never-Ending Wrong
- Original publication date
- 1977
- People/Characters
- Ferdinando Nicola Sacco; Bartolomeo Vanzetti
- Important events
- Sacco-Vanzetti trial
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- Languages
- English, Portuguese (Brazil)
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