Word: nihilisme
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He may have heard it coming or guessed or lucked out, but whatever, the freewheeling, free-form sound that critics are calling the New Music slips neatly into Bowie's own new groove. If it is casual and a little cool, a little anonymous and a touch technocratic, then it...
"I was somewhere else," he says now. "The songs were taking me over in the end. It may seem like three or four stages, but for me it was one continuous grinding journey. It led me just as near to insanity as I ever hope to get." An album recorded...
Nihilism scratches the surfaces of these works. But Brown acutely perceives the "in spite of that moves below the words: "When anguish is summoned, joy emerges; when mourning is appropriate, celebration intrudes." Wiesel's refusal to despair is not born out of blind faith and certainly not out of...
THE MOST INSISTENT presence in Marcc Bellocchio's Leap Into the Void is the director himself. He is almost tangibly there in the background of each heavily symbolic scene, shaking a first at reality. All too often, however, one also suspects that he is biting his thumb at the audience...
In the past the author has strained to pack too many ironic asides to the paragraph. In Nobody's Angel he allows some breathing space between wordplay. Unfortunately, a powerful sense of place and character is not sufficient to sustain an entire novel. The hero's sentimental nihilism...