Word: enigma
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...other words, man alone gives meaning to the life around him. This is not simple idealism. An enigma remains. And that is the necessary riddle of each man's mind, the confusion of his words, the haze of his vision. In a late period, when Stevens abandoned the luxurious language of his early work for the "grandly plain" style he sought to teach by, Stevens wrote...
...enigma remains, and it is to the task of "reading it" that the editors of The Achievement of Wallace Stevens have collected 19 critical essays written over the four decades of Stevens' life as a poet. As a primer of Stevens, as it is also supposed to be, the collection provides only a finicky mosaic, and most of the essays concern Harmonium, a collection of Stevens' work only...
Last Year at Marienbad. An experimental enigma of the screen worked out by French Director Alain Resnais and Novelist-Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet, in which past, present and future are refracted endlessly like the image in a child's kaleidoscope...
Last Year at Marienbad. An experimental enigma of the screen, worked out by French Director Alain Resnais and Novelist-Scenarist Alain Robbe-Grillet, in which past, present and future are refracted endlessly like the image in a child's kaleidoscope...
Meanwhile, the enigma. He goes on writing. If you talk of pain, he will sigh. If you talk of heroism, he will smile expansively. If, after this you ask him why he writes, he will probably shrug and keep his silence. What is there to say? Like the rest of us, he is only human. "I write," he says, "because I am miserable if don't write...