The Polish Review, Volume 50Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences in America., 2005 - Poland |
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Page 35
125 [ I look at art neither as the manufacturing of the asinine and utterly useless stuff known as pure Form nor as the plagiarizing of reality , but as the fashioning of a new reality to which we can escape when we have a bellyful .
125 [ I look at art neither as the manufacturing of the asinine and utterly useless stuff known as pure Form nor as the plagiarizing of reality , but as the fashioning of a new reality to which we can escape when we have a bellyful .
Page 56
Gombrowicz sets his “ cheap novel " in the incomprehensible context of the General Gouvernement , not in order to comment upon that reality , or Poland herself , but rather in order to flaunt his creative right to ignore the reality ...
Gombrowicz sets his “ cheap novel " in the incomprehensible context of the General Gouvernement , not in order to comment upon that reality , or Poland herself , but rather in order to flaunt his creative right to ignore the reality ...
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24 25 however , the poet rejects a mystical union with a higher lumen ( such as Dante's and St Augustine's ) in favor of an attachment to the concreteness and sensuality of earthly reality , which deserves to be saved in poetry .
24 25 however , the poet rejects a mystical union with a higher lumen ( such as Dante's and St Augustine's ) in favor of an attachment to the concreteness and sensuality of earthly reality , which deserves to be saved in poetry .
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