DAY THE WORLD WENT SANE, THE / ALLHALLOWSMAS

By Harry Barba

The Day the World Went Sane is a cliff-hanger all the way to a joyous and unexpected, but achingly hope for, reolution, shouting, "NO!" to doomsday prophets. And all of this in sensitive and luminous words.

As for Allhallowsmas - you've been to a masquerade party, haven't you? You've celebrated Halloween in your childhood and early teens. Remember? Then add everything you've heard about the Beaux Arts Ball of Paris, imagine the deepest drama that connects men and women in the whirlpool of ambivalent love, and you have only part of it.

Harian Creative Press (1979)