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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. If you liked Voltaire's Zadig (c'mon, let's see some hands people!) than you love Read's The Green ChildBy MorrisColumnThis was a really amazing and strange little book, particularly the last chapter, which reminded me a bit of Samuel Beckett's The Lost Ones (1971). Read contrasts two models of life, one in his fictional South American Republic of Rocandor and one for his underground civilization of Green People (there is a little bit of Voltaire in here). Not sure exactly where it is all aiming, or if that is even the right question to ask, but I enjoyed it the whole way through.0 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy kyle braceyPretty good Yo! For yo. Yo!5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. versus reality, ideals versus actualitiesBy Sverre SvendsenThe Englishman Herbert Read (1893-1968) was an eminent intellectual, world traveller and critic of the arts. He was well known for his written reviews and commentaries on many subjects. `The Green Child’ was his only novel, published in 1935. Being a mixture of fantasy and reality it is an odd duck of a book, especially in how it is structured. It is told in the third person. In the first section (there are three), the hero, Olivero, returns to England in 1861 after a thirty year absence, that time having been spent mainly in the of Roncador, South America. He returns to his home village by a river, the Druid, and a nearby flower mill. As he wanders along he discovers that at one point the river starts to run uphill. He follows it to the old mill which has been rebuilt and expanded and is humming with activity. He spies a brute of a fellow entering through a window with a lamb. As he continues to observe, he sees the man trying to force a woman to drink fresh blood from the lamb. She is no ordinary woman, having green skin and a translucent appearance, appearing fairylike. Immediately he feels that he must rescue this wondrous creature from her plight. He does and in the remainder of the section they wander along the river and streams to a pool into which they enter and are transported to a different world inhabited by the aqueous green creatures of whom the woman, Siloën, is a member.Then, abruptly, in the second section the narrative shifts to Olivero’s experiences from thirty years prior. He leads a rather shiftless life without goals. Unjustly, on a sojourn in Spain, he becomes identified with the hated French Jacobin Club and is jailed for two years. Then he sets out for South America where he by pure chance becomes involved with a clique of revolutionaries whose aim it is to oust the dictator of Roncador and establish a new republic on Voltarian and French revolutionary principles of freedom, liberty and equality. This is a very long section well written, expounding on the theories and practicalities of founding and running a new government. The country is rugged and sparsely populated by uneducated farmers and sheep herders. It gives the author the opportunity to express his utopian ideals about politics and administration. But eventually Olivero tires of the monotony and he finds no more challenges to conquer or ideals to put into effect. So, he manufactures his own assassination and flees to return to his beloved England.Chronologically we then return to the end of the first section for the beginning of the third section. Herbert Read was an atheist but in this section he engineers a euphoric realm in a dimension consisting of eternally illuminating lights, life giving pure waters, lofty vaulted grottos, euphonious seven-tone gongs and the worship of crystals. Mysticism and esotericism are combined with fantasy. Olivero arrives to this dimension with his beloved Green Child woman and he is soon accepted by this aqueous race as one of them. He takes on various tasks, graduating from level one to level four—the highest—as he learns the physical and mental skills that determine each individual’s progress and eventual soul survival.Reading this book was an adventure in two unlikely themes: political idealism and metaphysical fantasy. It was obviously the writer’s examination into his own life’s quest for meanings, answers, resolutions to existential quandaries. A unique book that in 1946 was recommended by the illustrious author Graham Greene who provides the foreword.

A visionary masterpiece filled with green children, quicksand portals, imaginary countries, revolutionary dictators, and subterranean worldsThe Green Child is the only novel by Herbert Read ? the famous English poet, anarchist, and literary critic. First published by New Directions in 1948, it remains a singular work of bewildering imagination and radiance. The author considered it a philosophical myth akin to ’s cave.Olivero, the former dictator of a South American country, has returned to his native England after faking his own assassination. On a walk he sees, through a cottage window, a green-skinned young girl tied to a chair. He watches in horror as the kidnapper forces the girl to drink lamb’s blood from a cup. Olivero rescues the child, and she leads him into unknown realms.

“The Green Child is a mesmerizing novel that resists categorization and simplification.” - Lincoln Michel, Tin House“The Green Child has narrative and stylistic lucidity as startling as some of its fantasy.” - The New Yorker“If you want to imagine what it would be like to exist beyond desire, beyond loneliness, and even beyond identity, The Green Child is the book to read.” - The Washington Post“The Green Child conveys a private sense of glory. The same type of glory that impelled Christian writers to picture the city of God.” - Graham GreeneAbout the AuthorSir Herbert Edward Read, (1893–1968) was an English anarchist poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.Eliot Weinberger is an essayist, editor, and translator. He lives in New York City.

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