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Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.
Filmidee und literarisches Meisterwerk: lyrisch, funkelnd, von unerhörter Präzision.

James Agee

Der Tramp und die Bombe

Eine Atombombe explodiert über New York. Die entsetzlichen Auswirkungen hat niemand vorhergesehen: Kein menschliches Wesen hat überlebt. Mit Ausnahme des Tramp. Durch die menschenleere Wüstenei eines post-apokalyptischen New York wankt Charlie Chaplin in seiner Paraderolle als Vagabund, dem nur sein tiefschwarzer Humor geblieben ist. Und er stößt auf weitere Überlebende: eine junge Frau, ein Neugeborenes – und ein Grüppchen Wissenschaftler, die sich inmitten der Ruinen eine Basis für ihre neue Weltordnung eingerichtet haben… 1947 wendet sich James Agee an den von...
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  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Atomzeitalter
  • Dystopie
  • Drehbuch
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Maël Renouard

On Memory Atrophy

Externalized memory had always proceeded by contractions, summaries, reductions, selections, breaks in flow, as well as by organization, classification, boiling down. Card catalogues reduced thousands of works to a few key notions; tables of contents contracted the hundreds of pages in a given book. The sign itself was the first abbreviation of experience. An epic stitched of words was an abbreviation of the war, the long years of which were reduced to a few nights of recitation; the written text that recorded the epic was a contraction of the oral narration which pushed aside its sensory richness, melody, life in a thousand details. In accumulating, every level of abbreviation reconstituted an infinite flow, a new dilation that would be contracted in its turn. From the plurality of pages to the index and the table of contents; from the plurality of books to card catalogues.

The abbreviated elements were further arranged, situated...

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Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

Mário Gomes

Ein Roadtrip ohne Road

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  • Raumtheorie
  • Intellektuelle
  • Gemeinschaft
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Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it.
Born too late to see the war, too soon to forget it.

Reiner Schürmann

Origins

"This is a book about the power that a past War holds over a German growing up in the 1950s and 1960s: born too late to see that war and too early to forget it. The narrative shows how painfully public events — the shadows, rather, of events gone by — intrude upon a life and shape it. The English translation appears at a moment when most of the key issues have radically changed. Germany has signed what amounts to a...
  • 1968
  • Autobiographie
  • Erinnerung
  • Emigration
  • Homosexualität
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Maria Filomena Molder

So many egoists call themselves artists…

“So many egoists call themselves artists,” Rimbaud wrote to Paul Demeny on May 15, 1871. Even though that is not always obvious, ‘I’, the first person, is the most unknown person, a mystery that is constantly moving towards the other two, the second and third persons, a series of unfoldings and smatterings that eventually gelled as ‘Je est un autre’. That is why ‘apocryphal’ is a literarily irrelevant concept and ‘pseudo’ a symptom, the very proof that life, writing, is made up of echoes, which means that intrusions and thefts (Borges also discusses them) will always be the daily bread of those who write.

Words from others, words taken out of place and mutilated: here are the alms of time, that squanderer’s sole kindness. And so many others, mostly others who wrote, and many other pages, all of them apocryphal, all of them echoes, reflections. All this flows together into—two centuries...

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