NP but Rushdie on Vonnegut

[Thomas Eckhardt]

> And tell me how *Elizabeth Costello* tackles this?.....


 From an edited version of chapter six of "Elizabeth Costello":

"That is what Paul West, novelist, had written about, page after page after 
page, leaving nothing out; and that is what she read, sick with the 
spectacle, sick with herself, sick with a world in which such things took 
place, until at last she pushed the book away and sat with her head in her 
hands. Obscene! She wanted to cry but did not cry because she did not know 
at whom the word should be flung: at herself, at West, at the committee of 
angels that watches impassively over all that passes. Obscene because such 
things ought not to take place, and then obscene again because having taken 
place they ought not to be brought into the light but covered up and hidden 
for ever in the bowels of the earth, like what goes on in the 
slaughterhouses of the world."

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/herproblemwithevil