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“the subconscious conviction that the framework of an established social order cannot be effectively shattered except by some form of collective or individual violence was precise and correct.”

If one wonders about the disappearance of the novel of youth, then, the youth of 1919—maimed, shocked, speechless, decimated—provide quite a clear answer... If history can make cultural forms necessary, it can make them impossible as well, and this is what the war did to the bildungsroman.

A Tsar is history’s slave. 👌👌👌