Repetition is a mainstay of comedy: the return of the same pratfall or catchphrase over and over. Repetition is also central to tragedy; Sigmund Freud called it the “return of the repressed.” Caren Beilin‘s novel Revenge of the Scapegoat, winner of the 2023 Vermont Book Award for fiction, is both comedy and tragedy. It’s structured […]
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