evil & paranoia

[Robert Bruno]

I'm currently reading Andrew Delbanco's _The Death of Satan: How 
Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil_.  Subjects include Am. Lit. - 
History and Criticism, Evil in Lit., Lit. and Society, etc.~Before 
starting I checked the index to see if TRP was included, and he 
was (albeit briefly):

"As the anxiety began to lift in the 1950s with the stabilization of 
Europe, the death of Stalin, and the rise of Khrushchev, a distinction 
was reasserted between realism and paranoia, and new writers (Norman 
Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and John le Carre) introduced the notion that the 
struggle against totalitarianism had become a totalitarianism of its 
own.  These were fresh voices expressing an old theme: that the essential 
modern evasion was the failure to acknowledge evil, name it, and accept 
its irreducibility *in the self*.  Evil, in other words, was one's near 
neighbor as well as an alien force." (page 197)

This short statement (esp regarding totalitarianism) has forced me to 
reconsider the element of paranoia in GR: exactly *who* are the ones to be 
afraid of?

Rob