Kracauer’s novel, Ginster (1928), reverses the burden of vitalism to revolve around the feeling of death. But death is not presented as transcendence or covered of a sublime halo, but accompanies the war that, as a scenario, frames the misadventures of the subject Ginster. The question for life is in the narrative an answer throughSigue leyendo «Human insensitivity as normality»
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The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels
Preterito Perfecto (Preterite perfect), the novel by writer Hugo Foguet, states that «The city is the sacred space where the fate of the characters is fulfilled». The author explains in an interview: «As for the city as a recurring factor, the habitat of modern man is the city, and the counterpoint between present and past,Sigue leyendo «The power of the city over the individual and its influence on novels»