Word: nihilisme
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This philosophy of nihilism leaves Dawes with a choice: he can either commit suicide, thus rejecting a meaningless life, or he can as Todd Andrews did in John Barth's The Floating Opera, conclude that he might as well live on because suicide is also meaningless.
We first read lonesco in the ninth grade. I particularly remember it because The Bald Soprano was the first piece of grown-up literature I ever got excited about. It is interesting that we should have gone beyond our pubescent skepticism to enthusiastically appreciate a play that strained even the...
Dismissed Dissents. The sudden anxiety created abroad by the table tennis team's visit was mirrored at home by an unexpected dissenter: Vice President Spiro Agnew. Attending the Republican Governors Conference at Williamsburg last week, Agnew summoned nine reporters to a late-night off-the-record chat and argued...
For the noble idea leveled with a thud, see your nearest modern Bible. "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher . . ." In one new version his words become, "A vapor of vapors! Thinnest of vapors! All is vapor!"-turning the most passionate cry in the literature of nihilism into a spiritual weather...
Doris Lessing is prepared to assume-as others have before her-that in a world gone mad, those whom the world calls mad may be the only sane ones. What she has forfeited-and the loss has to be enormous for any novelist-is the scale of humanity. To the...