Feb 5, 2018
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- Works of art are the result of an immeasurably complex evolution of forces; works of art emerge from a civilization through an individual. Art is the fructification of a people.
- Modernist literature was produced under the assumption that literature was of critical importance to civilization. The great experiments — the massive investments of time made by a Joyce or a Proust; a Woolf or a Faulkner— of modernist literature, were justified by the relative impact that literature could have on consciousness. To write was to be heard, or potentially heard. Aesthetics was an alternate to politics. Modernism stepped into the void of values made by the Great…
