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Demons Under Western Eyes - Terror in books and in our cities.(World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks, 2001)
Incomprehensible horror sparks a frantic search for comprehension. Among the bookish, this search often takes the form of a hunt for literary parallels. Accordingly, in the aftermath of September 11, one found many invocations of Dostoevsky and Zola, Henry James and Joseph Conrad.
Dostoevsky's great novel Demons (1871) was inspired partly by the brutal murder of a student by an anarchist-terrorist called Sergei Nechaev. In Zola's novel Germinal (1885), an exiled Russian nihilist called Souvarine sets off a bomb that floods a mine, killing many. In The Princess Casamassima (1886), James presents Hyacinth Robinson, an impoverished aesthete, who is seduced by ...
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