Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic Realism in visual art and literature

Magic realism, in a broader perceptive has come to signify an aesthetic style or genre of fiction in which magical elements are blended into a ...

 
continue... 24 January 2011 // Art, Literature
 
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by ...

 
continue... 23 January 2011 // Literature
 

Nietzsche and the Artist

Art and nothing but art! It is the great means of making life possible, the great seduction to life, the great stimulant of life.
The Will to Power by Nietzsche.

In Beyond Good and Evil Nietzsche gave a neat description of his view of man as the unification of the two poles of creature and creator (Nietzsche, 1973, p.155). This complemented the twin tendencies of his writings to emphasize, on the ...

 
continue... 20 January 2011 // Literature
 
The trail of the meat

The trail of the meat

CHAPTER I
The Trail of The Meat

Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Literature
 
Less=more and limits are good!

Less=more and limits are good!

The creator’s function is to sift the elements he receives from her [the imagination], for human activity must impose limits on itself. The more ...

 
continue... 19 January 2011 // Art, Literature
 

I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence

"Have I been in love before? Is that it?" he said, guessing my thoughts at once. "That I can tell you. No, never before — nothing at all like what I feel now." But a sudden painful recollection seemed to flash across his mind. "No," he said sadly; "in this too I need your compassion, in order to have the right to love you. Well, was I not bound to think ...

 
continue... 10 January 2011 // Literature
 
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strenght!

1984 by George Orwell. Part Three excerpted from the book and clips from films

p.234

"Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It ...

 
continue... 07 January 2011 // Literature, Movies
 
Perhaps I’m lucky

Perhaps I’m lucky

I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, ...

 
continue... 25 December 2010 // Literature
 
 
 
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