"Confronting the Silence: a Review of 'Sad Tiger' by Neige Sinno, Translated by Natasha Lehrer"
"I wouldn’t say that there’s some sort of evil, instinctual or articulatable impulse to rape that everyone is struggling to tamp down at all times. Rather, I think what Sinno is circling here is closer to Hannah Arendt’s observations at Adolf Eichmann’s trial, the writings in which the philosopher coined the famous phrase 'the banality of evil.' I think evil rises under circumstances and systems of power that allow, nay, want it to flourish; systems in which losers and egomaniacs are rewarded for trampling and transgressing upon those smaller and weaker than themselves."
~ ANNETTE LEPIQUE
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