Josipovici, Gabriel

What ever happened to modernism? / Gabriel Josipovici - New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, c2010. - xii, 208 p.: ill.; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references ([188]-196) and index.

My whole body puts me on my guard against each word -- The oracles are silent -- What shall we have to drink in these deserts? -- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom -- I heard the murmur and the murmuring sound -- It's a quick death, God help us all -- The marquise went out at five -- A universe for the first time bereft of all signposts -- The mutilated body was thrown back into the sea -- Fenande has left with a futurist -- A clown, perhaps, but an aspiring clown -- I would prefer not to -- The imitation of an action -- It takes talent to lead art that far astray -- Stories of modernism.

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Modernism (Literature)

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