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...architecture, the mythic roots and Nazi uses of German romantic imagery -- dark woods, lonely travelers, ecstatic moral conversions in the face of nature -- and much more besides. Among Kiefer's spiritual heroes are Richard Wagner, Frederick II, Joseph Beuys, Painters Arnold Bocklin and Caspar David Friedrich and Novelist Robert Musil. Kiefer is not an artist of ordinary ambitions. But his ambitions are not bound up in the cult of celebrity that has riddled the art world in the '80s. He shuns publicity, permits virtually no photographs and spends most of his time behind the locked gates of his studio...
...announce that he was defecting to join the Washington Capitals. "My ambition is to play in the National Hockey League," said Pivonka. "I can hardly wait for the season to begin." He was the second Czechoslovak hockey player to defect in a week: four days earlier, Defenseman Frantisek Musil had joined the Minnesota North Stars...
These problems, however, must be weighed against the other parts of the book, many of which are dazzling. Kundera seems to work well in the artful and engaging tradition of Robert Musil: this book is worth reading and re-reading...
Vienna before World War I was a heart of decadence in a glittering shell. The fusty Emperor Franz Josef ruled over a sprawling, ramshackle empire, weakened by corruption. By spending lavishly on his army, he managed to maintain the empire as what Austrian Novelist Robert Musil called "the second-weakest great power in Europe...
...empire was a satirist's paradise, as Musil demonstrated in his mammoth novel A Man Without Qualities, it was also the most exciting intellectual center in Europe. There were Mach and Boltzman in physics, Bruckner, Mahler and Schoenberg in music, Adler and Freud in psychology. There were also dozens of writers and journalists, including the brilliant, mordant social critic Karl Kraus, whose anti-paper Die Fackel (The Torch) was dedicated to making its readers "morally aware of the essential distinction between the chamber...