Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Author Cleland, the never-do-well bohemian who first put Fanny between covers, wrote the book because he needed money, but sold it for a mere 20 guineas. He thereafter pursued his passion for philology and died a scholar. His publisher, made rich by reprints, died a proper gentleman...
...that he and two colleagues, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and the late Ernst Kirchner, started nearly six decades ago is now a part of both history and legend. There is proof, in a current show of Heckel's work in the stately main hall of the Stuttgart Staatsgalerie, that passion and emotion once flamed as hotly in this old man as ever in any iconoclastic rebel. But he now lives quietly and serenely in an orchard-ringed farmhouse on Lake Constance, sometimes reminiscing about a youth that he no longer fully understands...
...path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than a sob story, to pry loose Junpei's bankroll. Then she absconds, but only after he has fallen in love with...
...this is the best an international cabal of publishing potentates could do, then our young writers had a singularly unproductive year. The Age of Malaise is not a bad book, but it is an uninspired, and uninspiring one. It flits from bedroom to passion-fraught bedroom following the heroine, a 17 year-old stenography student named Enrica, who clearly is searching for something to bring meaning to her darb existence...
...Enrica is gripped by a malaise, an indifference, a purposelessness that supposedly characterizes the youth of her generation. But underneath this veneer there is a grave, unfulfilled need to love and be loved, to find meaning in sex and passion...