Miruna Stanciu
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Miruna Stanciu
Introducere în opera lui M. Blecher
Analysis of M. Blecher's literary work, focusing on his themes of human vulnerability, existential ephemerality, illness, inner imaginary, onirism, and the interplay between reality and dream, especially in his novels and journal.
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Existential Failure in Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. - Free Online Library
thefreelibrary.comThe saddest thing is not that he died. But that he died long before the story picked up, hundreds of times, with each fatal failure. He died failing. Failing to revolt against his established role. Failing to avoid Bad Faith. Failing to free himself from burdens of guilt and judgement. Failing to exercise his freedom. Failing to own up to his choices. Failing to defend his own existence. Failing to stop the world from defining him before it was too late and, in turn, granting it permission to ultimately annihilate him. Let this be a reminder.
His metamorphosis is, simply put, a reflection of how alienated Gregor felt from his own humanity, of how content he felt with his spineless form, even before turning into an insect.
But the again, Kafka never called him an insect. He was actually against representations of him. No matter how detailed or abstract.
A physical space keeps existing when empty, with nobody watching it, but it’s not truly mine as long as I’m not there. It belongs to the latest version of me that inhabited it. And I used to feel this as a terrible loss. I’m becoming a guest in my own former home, while still tightly clenching the keys to my chest.
Wherever I go, I crave the intimac
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There are spaces whose main quality is that they don’t appear to be real. Some of them seem to linger on the edge of reality: they may look too simple or too perfect or even too familiar. Or they look slightly imperfect, with some crucial details missing, almost disappearing before your eyes, like a faded image. Others seem to escape reality in the
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The Overlooked Work of Paul Peter Piech, Mid-century “Anti-establishment” Designer – Eye on Design
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