Murmurings and Mimicries
Faces of Horror: Horror in 1800’s — Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841)
As a lover of both writing and drawing, I am fascinated with horror as a great vehicle, particularly of the disfigured, for both of my loves. As a beginner of the genre, I suppose that the horror genre has subtypes, the attributes of each can combine with those of the others. Poe’s “The Murders in…
Love as a Demon: Some Long-Winded Thoughts
The novella by the great Colombian writer, which makes the offensive suggestion in its title, I find, among other things, as a feature on the problem of determinism. It illustrates, more than anything, how determinism is itself man-made, enforced, and as in the case of what happens to the protagonists Sierva and Cayetano, inflicted. There…
An Interesting Relief in the Time of Crisis: The Phantom of the Opera and Hamlet
On the second week of April—the middle of the quarantine period—came the free streaming on YouTube of the theater plays The Phantom of the Opera and Hamlet. A short reflection on these plays may be a curt and interesting relief in the current crisis. Nothing could be more dissimilar as a pair than this pair—at…
What is Behind the Seen
Director Busom’s animation film is a feature of contrasts. First is the contrast of the dramatic and the suggested, or perhaps better put, the outlandish and the unseen. Mimicking the art of its protagonist-hero Luis Buñuel, Busom’s animation film has dream sequences at intervals which give mesmerizing surrealistic effects. These dream sequences as a basic…
On Barnes’ Noise and Music and My Meandering about Artistic Integrity
Barnes’ fictional account of Dmitri Shostakovich’s life delves into the heart of the issue of artistic and moral integrity. In the case of Shostakovich, as a Russian classical composer during Stalin’s reign, the delicacy of such integrity is tested and underscored under the pressure of ideological coercion. Barnes’ novel, in its audacity, undertakes the hard…
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