Dienstag, 29. September 2009

30.11.2016 - G. Seferis2 and melancholy resignation etc...


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29.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48   

In one of his most significant poems Seferis describes a dream in which a marble head - too heavy for his arms, yet impossible to push aside - fell upon him at the moment of awakening - It is in this state of mind that he sings the praise of the dead, for only communication with the dead conversing on their asphodel meadows can bring to the living a hope of peace, confidence, and justice! - In Seferis's interpretation the story of the Argonauts becomes a parable halfway between myth and history - a parable of oarsmen who must fail before they reach their goal - But Seferis animates this background of melancholy resignation -  with the eloquent joy inspired in him by his country's mountainous islands - with their whitewashed houses rising in terraces above an azure sea - a harmony of colours that we find again in the Greek flag... (G. Seferis, Pres. Sp. 1963)

His wide travels provide the backdrop and colour for much of Seferis's writing - which is filled with the themes of alienation, wandering, and death... (G. Seferis, Biography 1963)

They (legends) make us realize - that throughout the ages the same attitudes toward work, suffering, joy, love, and death persisted without change... (G. Seferis, Nobel Lec. 1963)


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30.11.2016 - daily Buddha2 and Sartre etc...


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28.09.2009 - Interpretation of dali48 

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly - our whole life would change... (daily Buddha)

Sartre (1905-1980) died in Paris of oedema of the lungs on April 15, 1980. Arlette Elkaim, Sartre's mistress whom he had adopted in 1965, received the rights to his literary heritage - not Simone de Beauvoir...

Like Hemingway and F.S. Fitzgerald after WWI - Sarte was considered the leading interpreter of the postwar generation's world view after WWII...

In 'The Humanism of Existentialism' he condensed the major theme of existentialist philosophy simply - "first of all man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and only afterwards, defines himself"... (J.P. Sartre, PAC)

"Thanks to Molière," Anouilh once said, "the true French theatre is the only one that is not gloomy, in which we laugh like men at war with our misery and our horror - This humour is one of France's messages to the world"...

In 1944 he (Anouilh) gained a wide audience with Antigone, a version of Sophokles' classical drama - because of his thinly disguised attack on the Nazis - and on the Vichy government, led by Marshal Pétain... (J. Anouilh, PAC)


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