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“Literature does not reproduce life, but rather it is life that attempts to recreate literature.”
― Culture and Explosion
― Culture and Explosion
“Semiotic space appears before us as the multi-layered intersection of various texts, which are woven together in a specific layer characterised by complex internal relationships and variable degrees of translatability and spaces of untranslatability. The layer of ‘reality’ is located underneath this textual layer – the kind of reality that is organised by a multiplicity of languages and has a hierarchical relationship with them. Together, both these layers constitute the semiotics of culture. That reality which is external to the boundaries of language lies beyond the limits of the semiotics of culture.”
― Culture and Explosion
― Culture and Explosion
“Geniuses — the creators of art — are unpredictable in their oeuvre and do not allow themselves to be directly influenced by the critic. [...] From this, Belinsky reached the audacious conclusion that the genius working towards eternity and posterity may not only be misunderstood by his peers but may even be considered useless to them. Thuis usefulness is concealed by the historical perspective. But the contemporary man needs art and although not as deep nor as long- lived he may nevertheless be taken as the reader of today.”
― Culture and Explosion
― Culture and Explosion
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