The First Human Being, Cane

The first human being is a murderer. And not only a murderer, a murderer of his own brother. The fact that this book that sets at the corner stone of our culture would present the first man as a murderer of his brother is something that should really set you back on your heels. I mean, i human beings, you know, like they're amazing creatures. To think about us as a plague on the planet is its own kind of bloody catastrophe,. malevolent, low, quasi genicidal metaphor....