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As a companion volume, you could read From Caligari to Hitler, which argues that German Expressionism was a stage to National Socialism.
There are a lot of dense conversations (isn't that what Eliot initially complained about in Paradise Lost?) that unravel this theme, a theme of the abandonment of the rational in the service of the communal and orgiastic.
— Sep 09, 2020 09:05AM
There are a lot of dense conversations (isn't that what Eliot initially complained about in Paradise Lost?) that unravel this theme, a theme of the abandonment of the rational in the service of the communal and orgiastic.
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Secondary characters enter the plot at this point, in one instance, a bad marriage to one of the narrator's friends. The war has begun to a collective jubilation. Composer Adrian's cold eye on life and death as it relates to his compositional practices, his use of parody (reminiscent of Stravinsky). Had to take a break for something contemporary, more colloquial.
— Sep 02, 2020 07:15AM
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Leverkuhn, the composer in the novel, seems to be proposing a system of composition similar to twelve-tone row. You can learn something about musical theory reading some of the conversations.
— Aug 18, 2020 07:09AM
