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A review by alyssabookrecs
Perestroika by Tony Kushner
4.0
From May 2016:
"The world howls without; it is at this moment a very terrible world--what the first character you meet in Perestroika calls an 'inevident welter of fact, event, phenomenon, calamity.' I have been blessed with remarkable friends, colleagues, comrades, collaborators: Together we organize the world for ourselves, or at least we organize our understanding of it; we reflect it, refract it, criticize it, grieve over its savagery; and we help each other to discern, amidst the gathering dark, paths of resistance, pockets of peace, and places from whence hope may be plausibly expected. Marx was right: The smallest divisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. And also plays."
-Tony Kushner, November 15, 1993
Today I finally read Kushner's Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika. Read both Millenium Approaches and Perestroika. They are two parts but one unit, like the smallest divisible human unit.
"The world howls without; it is at this moment a very terrible world--what the first character you meet in Perestroika calls an 'inevident welter of fact, event, phenomenon, calamity.' I have been blessed with remarkable friends, colleagues, comrades, collaborators: Together we organize the world for ourselves, or at least we organize our understanding of it; we reflect it, refract it, criticize it, grieve over its savagery; and we help each other to discern, amidst the gathering dark, paths of resistance, pockets of peace, and places from whence hope may be plausibly expected. Marx was right: The smallest divisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. And also plays."
-Tony Kushner, November 15, 1993
Today I finally read Kushner's Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika. Read both Millenium Approaches and Perestroika. They are two parts but one unit, like the smallest divisible human unit.