![]() ![]() ![]() Yet Yeats’s meditation on gratuitous violence, the tragedy of suffering that could have been avoided, and its devastating transformations (a terrible beauty is born) speaks to the powerfully ambivalent emotions one feels reading Hurricane Season, which condemns violence - especially sexual violence - by depicting it unflinchingly, in scenes and language that make Truman Capote and Cormac McCarthy seem tame. The second epigraph, from Jorge Ibargüengoitia’s Las Muertas, is more topical. Yeats’s poem “Easter, 1916.” Yeats describes an Irish rebel executed by a British firing squad: “He, too, has resigned his part / In the casual comedy / He, too, has been changed in his turn, / Transformed utterly: / A terrible beauty is born.” These lines about revolutionary politics in early 20th-century Ireland may seem a contextually odd fit for a novel about a femicide in Veracruz - the murder of someone the villagers call the Witch. ![]() HURRICANE SEASON TAKES ITS first epigraph from W. ![]()
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