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...would have the real world play." Both were fascinated by dream and ambiguity, the duality of sex and death, perversity and contradiction and mystery. This show makes one realize that surrealism was no revolution but a final knotting-up of the 19th century romantic tradition, whose decadent or fin-de-siècle form was symbolism...
...were enjoying the fruits of their conquests in the world of finance and politics. Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time...
Hollywood, on the other hand, which drew her to the U.S. in 1957, mainly cast her in dishonest stories with dishonest endings. In A Breath of Scandal, she was a fin-de-siècle Austrian princess falling in love with a mining engineer from Pittsburgh. In Heller in Pink Tights, she was an actress traveling the Old West who bet her "honor" in a poker game with a desperate gunfighter...
...Beckett branch of the avantgarde, which includes such playwrights as Eugene lonesco (Rhinoceros) and Edward Albee (The Zoo Story), might be labeled the New Exquisites. The Old Exquisites (e.g., Oscar Wilde and the fin-de-siècle dandies) were anti-bourgeois snobs. They were too pure for the philistine middle class. The New Exquisites are anti-life snobs. Life is not pure enough for them. Several times in Happy Days, Winnie scrutinizes the handle of her toothbrush and reads the words "fully guaranteed . . . genuine pure." She and the New Exquisites are bitter because life is not fully guaranteed...
Died. Max Graf, 84, music critic who reached fame in Emperor Franz Josef's fin-de-siècle Vienna, author of Modern Music, Composer and Critic, Legend of a Musical City; of a stroke; in Vienna. Friend and appraiser of Johannes Brahms, Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss aging Max Graf recoiled as the Nazis took the Vienna woods, later wrote that "it required three centuries to make Vienna a musical city; one day sufficed to destroy this historic edifice." Fleeing to the U.S., he taught at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, became...