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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Apocalypse Then: Georg Heym & the Art of Cultural Divination.
In Dante’s Inferno fortune tellers are confined to the second lowest level of hell. Their heads have been twisted backwards so they stagger about, “silent and weeping,” bumping into each other for all eternity. In a particularly wicked example of … Continue reading
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Tagged apocalypse, auden, dante, dystopia, expressionism, ezra pound, heym, lorca, meidner, rimbaud, stalker, surrealism, tarkovsky
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