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"In the meantime," says Gogo, "let us try and converse calmly, since we are incapable of keeping silent." Waiting for Godot has nearly no action, only waiting and talk, the talk to make the waiting pass more quickly. Gogo, intellectually an infant, curls into a foetal position and sleeps whenever...
But Jean Dubuffet had a great deal in his head, and because he did, his work took on a special excitement. His philosophy, such as it is, amounted to sweeping rejection of Europe's cherished art traditions. Occidental culture, he said, had become "a game of ceremonies," and he...
Johnson has not restricted himself to the writing of non-fiction, however. During the thirties he published two novels, Unweave a Rainbow (dealing with "the disappearance of illusion in the process of arriving at maturity") and The Praying Mantis (a murder mystery centered on the anxieties of the killer). At...
Patently parallel, the two affairs reiterate a favorite Bergman theme: love is an illusory, ephemeral phenomenon; understanding is possible only where the illusion of love is absent. The characteristically expressive acting typical of Bergman's more or less regular troupe serves to illustrate the theme. Miss Andresson's versatile transformation...
But Cousin fails, and at the first threat of torture, he sells out to the Germans. He also kills his accomplice, who survived torture but had the bad luck to witness Cousin's cowardice. Working for the enemy. Cousin can still surround himself with the illusion of righteousness. His...