The Arrangement
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Though we would like to live without regrets, and sometimes proudly insist that we have none, this is not really possible, if only because we are mortal. When more time stretches behind than stretches before one, some assessments, however reluctantly and incompletely, begin to be made. Between what one wishes to become and what one has become there is a momentous gap, which will now never be closed. And this gap seems to operate as one's final margin, one's last opportunity, for creation. And between the self as it is and the self as one sees it, there is also a distance even harder to gauge. Some of us are compelled, around the middle of our lives, to make a study of this baffling geography, less in the hope of conquering these distances than in the determination that the distance shall not become any greater."-- James Baldwin's review of The Arrangement by Elia Kazan. The review is collected in The Cross of Redemption. |
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The Arrangement can refer to:
- The Arrangement: A Novel, a 1967 work by Elia Kazan
- The Arrangement (1969 film), a film directed by Elia Kazan, adapted from his novel