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This section contains papers about Bret Easton Ellis' Less than Zero (Leonard R.N. Ashley); Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (Lynn Hamilton); Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers (Russell E. Brown), Molière's Le Malade imaginaire (Betty J. Davis), Baltasar Gracián's El Criticón (Catherine G. Rovira); Trollope's The Warden (Vivian Zinkin); and Names Prime Evil: Fictional Heroes of Horror and Fear in the work of Sir Walter Scott and Barbey d'Aurevilly (Maxine M. Bernard).
In the course of Darger's story--titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnean War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion --the sisters (the Vivian Girls) manage to escape from the men (the Glandelinians) time and time again, but countless less fortunate girl-slaves are spectacularly mutilated and slaughtered along the way.
The Museum of American Folk Art did sponsor a reading of passages from the written version of Vivian Girls . Still, it's a pity there's none of Darger's writing in the exhibition itself, because it's marvelous, strange stuff, quite as startling as the paintings--in dizzying magnitude as well as vividness, since in the written version, Darger's gory battle scenes extend for hundreds of pages.
Critics say Tamara Jenkins' writing and directing debut is as refreshingly awkward and original as the film's teen-age heroine, Vivian Abramowitz (Natasha Lyonne).
Shortly before his death in 1973, after Darger moved out to a nursing home, his landlord opened up his room and discovered, amid piles of presumably artistic debris (hundreds of pairs of smashed eyeglasses, balls of string, old pairs of shoes, scores of empty Pepto-Bismol bottles), one 2,600-page autobiography, an 11-year weather log, 87 watercolors, 67 pencil drawings, and the tale of the Vivian Girls.
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