Faith has a similarity with clothes that are 'too big'. "'You'll grow into them.' That’s a good way to think about growing in ...

His characters are Koestler-controlled puppets in a grim ideological allegory which takes for granted ... the West must find a more appealing faith than Marxism. For disillusioned intellectuals ...

Green, Translator Random House (NY) $21 (211p) ISBN 978-0-679-40611-2 Appelfeld's dark tale of brother-sister incest is a jolting allegory of faith tested and found wanting. Caretakers of a ...

Allegory is a simple story which has a symbolic and more complex level of meaning. Characters, setting, objects and colours can all stand for or represent other bigger ideas. Many fables and fairy ...