In reference to the novel by that title by Margaret Atwood,
a sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale: Documents written by principals in a coup or even in a “legitimate”
democracy aren’t enough to merit the undoing of a corrupt, even
society-destroying command.
This observation was made by “The Testaments” reviewer at
the London Review of Books, Deborah Friedell:
“If 'The Testaments' were truly a
novel for our times, after Aunt Lydia and her allies had succeeded in getting
the documents out, after having risked, as they do in Atwood’s book, discovery
and death in almost every chapter, journalists would write about them; and
nothing would happen. ”
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