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Beiträge

  • Michael Löwy | Incandescent Flame: Surrealism as a Romantic Revolutionary Movement
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    Michael Löwy | Incandescent Flame: Surrealism as a Romantic Revolutionary Movement

      What is romanticism? Often it is reduced to a nineteenth century literary school, or to a traditionalist reaction against the French Revolution—two propositions found in countless works by eminent specialists in literary history and the history of political thought. This is too simple a formulation. Rather, Romanticism is a form of sensibility nourishing all…

  • Michel Leiris | Jean-Arthur Rimbaud’s Adventurous Life

    Michel Leiris | Jean-Arthur Rimbaud’s Adventurous Life

      I cannot imagine what poetry might be, if not a manifestation of a person’s essential revolt against the absurd laws of this universe he finds himself thrust into despite himself. Some people will exhaust themselves in jeremiads over the sadness of life, but this is not true revolt: the melancholy that gnaws at them…