Status Updates From Anabase

Written in 1941, Exile is an ode to Zweig's romanticized "world of yesterday", and is not as dreary a reading as Anabasis.

Anabasis: two songs (second and third from the end) gave me some reading pleasure; the rest of it was a dreadful experience. Plunging into second poem, Exile.

Anabasis: modernism meets cultural approppriation meets Dada

I'm not a Philistine - I majored in literary studies, really like modernism, read modernist poetry, but reading this is like reading through a car crash, on drugs, with Gladiator soundtrack in the background.

This man looks like a very severe case of unique snowflakeism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint-J...

Me serce zakwiliło radośnie pod wspaniałością wapna, ptak śpiewa: "o, starości!..." i rzeki w swoich łożyskach są jak wrzask kobiet, a ten świat jest piękniejszy niż skóra taranu ubarwiona czerwienią!