Dreams at the End of the NightBorn in 1964 in Prague, Ewald Murrer belongs to that generation of Czech artists who came of age during the last years of the communist regime and who immediately afterward began to have their work disseminated in official publications. He is the author of numerous volumes of poetry in his native language and has appeared in anthologies and journals internationally. He is also the author of The Diary of Mr. Pinke. "Ewald Murrer has produced a book that perhaps seems at first to be a catalog of illustrations to Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams, but which ultimately, and primarily, awaits a sign, i.e., searches for meaning. Murrer rather clairvoyantly mirrors himself as author, and this is done expressly in the text. At the end of the 20th century he has portrayed a celebration of boredom, the stifling of which by momentary ecstasy, or Ecstasy, is futile. The transformation of illusion into disillusion occurs at the moment when drugs (of any sort) cease to have an effect, and Murrer goes further than many of his contemporary unfortunates in admitting the consequence. |
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Page 40
... guests seize it and cast it on a new flight . " If you're a bird , fly ! " And again the company runs the stairs , this time from the height of the garret down , back to the hall . We are at the apex of abandon and everything is ...
... guests seize it and cast it on a new flight . " If you're a bird , fly ! " And again the company runs the stairs , this time from the height of the garret down , back to the hall . We are at the apex of abandon and everything is ...
Page 81
... guest of the house , a quiet natural scientist of low birth stringently adhering to the rules of family guests , became disconcerted . On the countess's command , when another considerable moment had passed , the servants began to ...
... guest of the house , a quiet natural scientist of low birth stringently adhering to the rules of family guests , became disconcerted . On the countess's command , when another considerable moment had passed , the servants began to ...
Page 104
... guests into the silent rooms , where in the gloom his terrified mother was waiting . The angels laid their hands on everything in the house , the house breathed and was alive , the walls exposed their pores , bathed in sweat . " Mother ...
... guests into the silent rooms , where in the gloom his terrified mother was waiting . The angels laid their hands on everything in the house , the house breathed and was alive , the walls exposed their pores , bathed in sweat . " Mother ...
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