Word: nihilisme
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While every episode in The Deputy calls for Pius to speak out in the name of God, the final scene all but denies the existence of God and drains meaning from the rest of the play. "The Angel of Death," a satanic concentration camp doctor who "selects" those who will...
Fellini's admitted moral dualism, in which his Roman Catholic upbringing wars with his present nihilism, comes into play. Eager to have an audience with an elderly cardinal, Mastroianni is led, like a sheet-wrapped Dante, down into a fumy inferno where the cardinal is stewing his skinny bones...
These unexplored potentialities of faith. Nigg believes, represent Christianity's hope for survival in the 20th century. Modern man has fled from the church to find joy in freedom, confidence in the powers of reason. Nigg believes that this latest heresy, rationalism, leads first to nihilism and despair, but...
LIFE AMONG THE SURREALISTS, by Matthew Josephson (403 pp.: Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $6). Matthew Josephson roared through the '20s like the New Culture Special, stopping here for some Dada nihilism, there for surrealistic analysis and along the way meeting up with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon, Max Ernst, Ezra Pound...
VILLA MILO, by Xavier Domingo (192 pp.; Braziller; $4). Paco, the hero of this flavorsome but uneven novella, is a foundling growing up in a brothel. The madam, the preposterous Doña Fili, is his presumptive mother. Blanca, one of the prostitutes, is his mistress-business and her moods...