Word: nihilisme
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Nabobs of Nihilism
LIKE A DEADBEAT WHO COMES TO THE party but refuses to have fun, Robert Smith, lead singer of the CURE, knows the seductive power of denial. Drifting over dirgelike beats and churning guitars, Smith's alienated lyrics and choked-up vocals have helped make the Cure the most accomplished and...
Ephron took her two babies to New York, where her hospitalized father kept an apartment, and began to put her life back together, writing screenplays (the thing she had sworn never to do) for some fast money, and -- in three annual work periods -- telling her story her way in the...
If these stories cause you to suspect that the New Comics project a bleak portrait of reality--or alternate realities--you're right. Beauty does make an occasional appearance in these pages. But the thematic wholeness of this anthology stems from its hopelessness and nihilism.
The underlying theme is how much easier these urban young find it to couple in the dark than to commit their hearts or even voice their feelings. A woman bluntly tells a man trying to seduce her that the romantic method won't work. The central male, informed that someone...