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1959

The Great Impostor


Robert Crichton - 1959
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The Eclipse of the Intellectual


Elémire Zolla - 1959
    Like a multiple choice test that limits your answers to only the ones provided, society also limits the options available while maintaining the illusion that you are free to choose anything you want.Another part talks of a viewer of modern art. They criticize the work and then add the ultimate insult by saying "I really don't understand modern art at all." It goes on to explore how and why people condemn what they do not understand or what is not common to them.mass-man, culture industry, bourgeois, sophisms, avant-garde, kitsch, abstract art, D. H. Lawrence, Industrial Revolution, peyote, stereophonic, gambler, Simone Weil, Fascist, matriarchy, mescaline, Baudelaire, homosexual, T. S. Eliot, jazzTranslated by Raymond Rosenthal