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Then there is Come Back to Sorrento (1932), a simple, direct, and achingly beautiful study of two would-be artists in a stultifying small town that cannot comprehend their dreams and ambitions ( Come Back to Sorrento , by the way, is one of the very few books written before the gay-lib movement that features homosexual characters and is neither a soggy plea for understanding, a mockery or hate tract, a clinical case study, or anything other than an intricate and compassionate rendering of some fellow human beings).
In short, communities have been practicing mosquito-avoidance long before they comprehend links between malaria and mosquitoes.
All the other critics in America--"[o]ur official arbiters of culture"--"have lost the gift of being able to comprehend a work of art that does not reflect their immediate experience; they have become afraid of genuine art."
Like a serial killer, he's so self-obsessed that he's lost his sense of shame and can't comprehend his culture's mores.
But Barker hasn't concocted a larger dramatic structure that would hold those larger dramatic truths together and help us comprehend where these people went wrong.