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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Gabriel Josipovici |
ISBN: | 0300079915 9780300079913 |
OCLC Number: | 41528017 |
Description: | ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The age of suspicion -- Lightness and gravity -- Excursus I.A tale of a heel and a hip -- Dante: trusting the mother tongue -- Shakespeare: trust and suspicion at play -- Excursus II. Red blood white snow -- Romantic doubts -- Proust and the face of true goodness -- Franz Kafka: the innocent pretence -- 'Dear incomprehension!': Beckett and trust -- Kinetic melodies. |
Responsibility: | Gabriel Josipovici. |
Abstract:
A discussion of whether it is possible to create art today with the freedom of earlier ages and yet produce works that are more than merely decorative or commercial. The author argues that art is always made out of a deep confidence of being the world, and therefore in time and language.
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