{"id":127541,"date":"2018-07-17T13:00:04","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=127541"},"modified":"2018-07-17T13:19:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:19:08","slug":"redux-snared-by-sin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/redux-snared-by-sin\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Snared By Sin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of<\/em>\u00a0The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSfnx3y2sMXUtu-ZwAQeTN1iAYh_S21I2df71FY0mU5GxosjAw\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127542 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t summer begin to feel \u2026 dull? Like, who can stomach all this tedious sunshine anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Before you go looking for some mischievous fun, consider Max Frisch\u2019s definition of sin from his 1989\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2367\/max-frisch-the-art-of-fiction-no-113-max-frisch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D10ac6878f1%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEhQSKiSOYpMMzymiUs9G3Q7AMMHg\">Writers at Work interview<\/a>: \u201ca lack of capacity for love\u201d; read\u00a0Yiyun Li\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/5421\/persimmons-yiyun-li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Dd8a8097738%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFKowRUrpcWpPrhItzgWSPMD-YNDQ\">Persimmons<\/a>,\u201d a short story about punishment and drought; and learn\u00a0what happened to a misfortunate youth in\u00a0Greg Kosmicki\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=6494fb3acd&amp;e=22801f508d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D6494fb3acd%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHByKd7R58LxRJFy3a4KnWn5Y50yA\">Lester Pyrtle Gets Snared By Sin and Caught in the Act By God in Old Man Mooney\u2019s Barn, Summer, 1956<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2367\/max-frisch-the-art-of-fiction-no-113-max-frisch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D1f8505dda4%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340657000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHTQFgNnXkrXoGekplagCkLA3K2GQ\">Max Frisch, The Art of Fiction No. 113<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 113 (Winter II 1989)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For me, I think sin would be a lack of capacity for love. If I\u2019m not able to love anybody, not even myself, or my dog, not my mother, or you\u2014this inability to love would be a sin. Perhaps not the word\u00a0<em>sin<\/em>, but\u00a0<em>disaster<\/em>. Therefore, the heaviest accusation I can imagine is the one I have in\u00a0<em>Triptych<\/em>\u2014that someone would tell you you are incapable of loving. So you\u2019re a liar, you\u2019re cruel, you\u2019re possessive\u2014these are minor details compared with that. Not being able to love, for me that means not being allowed to exist.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-127543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-2-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-2-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-2-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/5421\/persimmons-yiyun-li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3Da543a507de%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340657000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFIkmm07CdQ_nXbJxDo_pCVx_1Img\">Persimmons<\/a><br \/>\nBy Yiyun Li<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 171 (Fall 2004)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>April comes and April goes, and May, and June, all passing by without shedding a drop of rain. The sky has been a blue desert since spring. The sun rises every morning, a bright white disk growing larger and hotter each day. Cicadas drawl halfheartedly in the trees. The reservoir outside the village has shrunken into a bathtub for the boys, peeing at each other in the waist-deep water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-127544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/unnamed-3-1-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/3622\/lester-pyrtle-gets-snared-by-sin-and-caught-in-the-act-by-god-in-old-man-mooneys-barn-summer-1956-greg-kosmicki\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D071a7303bd%26e%3D22801f508d&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1531844340657000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH322CUgDWv0o2f4haIF9tj9bwfug\">Lester Pyrtle Gets Snared By Sin and Caught in the Act By God in Old Man Mooney\u2019s Barn, Summer, 1956<\/a><br \/>\nBy Greg Kosmicki<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 69 (Spring\u00a01977)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the July hot smelly horse manure dust<br \/>\nout behind old man Mooney\u2019s barn<br \/>\nthat sits just at the outskirts of the town<br \/>\nLester comes upon the treasure for which<br \/>\nhe kept his eyes close to the ground<br \/>\nand searched for half the summer:<br \/>\na yellowed tag of a corner of a page\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like what you read,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=EDTNS17&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get a year of<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u2014four new issues, plus instant access to everything we\u2019ve ever published.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week, the editors of\u00a0The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked\u00a0pieces delivered straight to your inbox every\u00a0Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter. &nbsp; &nbsp; Doesn\u2019t summer begin to feel \u2026 dull? Like, who can stomach all this tedious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[34720,18120,34718,34719,1326,34717,2092,92,8199],"class_list":["post-127541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux","tag-34720","tag-drought","tag-greg-kosmicki","tag-lester-pyrtle-gets-snared-by-sin-and-caught-in-the-act-by-god-in-old-man-mooneys-barn","tag-max-frisch","tag-persimmons","tag-sin","tag-summer","tag-yiyun-li"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: Snared By Sin by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Every week, the editors of\u00a0\u2018The Paris Review\u2019\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. 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