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RICHARD WEINER AND THE AVANT-GARDE

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Zajac P.
Slovak Review. A Review of World Literature Research
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2004
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vol. 13
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issue 1
25-33
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Apart from poets like R. M. Rilke, P. Valéry, T. S. Eliot, O. Mandelshtam, S. Lörincz or V. Holan the late modern pendant to the avant-garde includes also prose-writers, e. g. Richard Weiner. Contrary to the avant-garde aesthetics of blasphemy and shock, he develops the aesthetics of terror. His works, especially the short story 'An Empty Chair' are based on some unexplainable guilt, not caused by any act of the individual, bound to endless horror: every time one seems to reach its bottom there is only more terror, emptiness and nothingness. Weiner's perception of sublimeness as tremor and fear of the magnificence of the terrible oscillates between negative theology of emptiness and nothingness and the aesthetics of mythical epiphany and unity possible exclusively in a dream.
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Artysta w kręgu mitów późnej nowoczesności

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Solski Z. W.
DYSKURS: Pismo Naukowo-Artystyczne ASP we Wrocławiu
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2019
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vol. 27(27)
108-125
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The author – referencing the thought by Chantal Delsol – uses the term “late modernity”, recognizing in subsequent after-the-Enlightenment peri- ods subsequent phases of modernity. Among countless myths of after-mo- dernity he chose two: about acquiring the knowledge of the world and im- mortality, which, in his opinion, influenced the condition of a modern artist in the strongest way. In conclusions the author notices that the biggest weakness of modernity (in contrary to its self-assessment) is impossibility to build a consistent image of reality, which is a result of lack of originality. Creators of modern culture specialized in theft of ideas of their predeces- sors, and out of context foreign fragment may be presented by them as a fruit of their own reflections. The weakness of modernity, displaying in its morbid tendency to reduction, became its strength: it is impossible to build a whole from the fragments, but with small fragments a whole may be infected. The success of modernity turned out to be, then, a success of a virus spreading from period to period.
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