My guess though only a guess is Dostoevsky in either The Possessed or The
Brothers Karamazov. Also Camus is a possibility.
Allen Cohen
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Dougill" <dougill@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp>
To: "Sixties" <sixties-l@lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 5:40 PM
Subject: [sixties-l] Quotation Source
In Lindsay Anderson's If... (1968), about armed resistance in a British
boarding-school, Malcolm McDowell as Travis proclaims 'Violence and
revolution are the only pure acts.' I have a feeling this is a quotation
from somewhere (Artaud, Guevara?) but cannot locate the source in my
dictionary of quotations.
Also does anyone know how to call the symbolic revolutionary female seen
storming French barricades - I think I've seen her referred to for some
reason as Marianne but am not sure why or if that is correct. There's a
female figure of this kind who joins the boys in their rebellion.
Very grateful if anyone could help me out...
Thanks
JD
Kyoto
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Tue Feb 06 2001 - 21:09:25 EST