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After great pain, a formal feeling comes.--Emily Dickinson
I ADMIRE a certain tone in modern literature--the voice of those who have been through the traumas of contemporary life--stress, disturbance, manipulation and suffering--and who have survived to come out the other end. Many have faced the anguish of living in a world which returns no coherent answers. Others have endured oppressive regimes, in which their room to manoeuvre has been small. Some have experienced a combination of both. I first recognised this distinctive tone in the early writings of Camus, such as The Myth of Sisyphus:
I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends ...