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By J. R. Ackerley

We imagine the realm of You combines acute social realism and darkish fable, and was once defined through J.R. Ackerley as “a fairy story for adults.” Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, clever, acerbic, self-righteous, offended. he's in love with Johnny, a tender, married, working-class guy with a sweetly easygoing nature. whilst Johnny is distributed to criminal for committing a petty robbery, Frank will get stuck up in a fight with Johnny’s spouse and mom and dad for entry to him. Their fight unearths an odd concentration in Johnny’s dog—a attractive yet missed German shepherd named Evie. And it truly is she, in spite of everything, who turns into the unbelievable and indisputable parent of Frank’s internal global.

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On such a view, the critic does not pick up a text by Johann von Goethe, Fyodor Dostoevsky, or James Joyce simply to communicate some new observations on the literature; nor does he set his pen to paper to contribute to the hallowed corpus of Human Knowledge, though this may well be what he claims he is doing. There is no casually coming across the outcry of a Faust, a Karamazov, or a Daedalus, no munching on buttery popcorn as we move through those paragraphs. Here the critic encounters only critical collision, a collision that brings him face to face with a Kierkegaardian either/or: either flight or resolve.

According to the Johannine notion of the Word, however, both views of literature discussed above are wrongheaded. " Approached from the perspective of the Word, literature is not a lifeless object that reflects or projects reality; it is a living spirit engaged not in mimicry but in response, not in imitation but in evocation. Contrary to being distinct from life, truth, or meaning, as a mirror or a prescription is, literature is the very fabric of life, truth, and meaning. Again, to view literature as spirit is to view it as truth, and truth cannot be imitated, dictated, or explicated.

The words I have spoken to you are spirit and they are life" (6:33). His Gospel also contains the teaching that God is spirit (4:24), and in the Prologue we find the assertion that God is the Word: "In the beginning was the Word: the Word was with God and the Word was God" (1:1). Finally, for the purpose at hand, Saint John's declaration that God is love should be noted (1 John 4:8, 16). The Johannine logos, therefore, may be defined as the Word, God, spirit, and love. It is the house in which people generate a living presence, the place where they are able to dwell freely and openly (cf.

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