This article explores the problematic status of reality before and after Holocaust. Taking two different Polish novels as examples, the author deals with the metaphor of ruins, remains, and ashes to define the ontolog...This article explores the problematic status of reality before and after Holocaust. Taking two different Polish novels as examples, the author deals with the metaphor of ruins, remains, and ashes to define the ontological status of the world in two texts. In the first text, Piotr Szewc's annihilation brings the positive vision of ruin as a kind of fragile and finite being which needs love and care. In the second text, Piotr Pazinski's Pensjonat shows that ruin is only a negative aspect of reality which is illegible and empty. The main concern of the text is to oppose those two visions and make a conclusion about the dialectic of the ruin.展开更多
Avant-garde director seeks to interpret Western plays from a traditional Chinese perspective In a desolate wasteland,sits a small mound overhung with boughs.The stage is set for a Chinese version of Waiting for Godot,...Avant-garde director seeks to interpret Western plays from a traditional Chinese perspective In a desolate wasteland,sits a small mound overhung with boughs.The stage is set for a Chinese version of Waiting for Godot,presented by the Contemporary Legend Theater from Taiwan at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on May 15.展开更多
文摘This article explores the problematic status of reality before and after Holocaust. Taking two different Polish novels as examples, the author deals with the metaphor of ruins, remains, and ashes to define the ontological status of the world in two texts. In the first text, Piotr Szewc's annihilation brings the positive vision of ruin as a kind of fragile and finite being which needs love and care. In the second text, Piotr Pazinski's Pensjonat shows that ruin is only a negative aspect of reality which is illegible and empty. The main concern of the text is to oppose those two visions and make a conclusion about the dialectic of the ruin.
文摘Avant-garde director seeks to interpret Western plays from a traditional Chinese perspective In a desolate wasteland,sits a small mound overhung with boughs.The stage is set for a Chinese version of Waiting for Godot,presented by the Contemporary Legend Theater from Taiwan at the Tianqiao Performing Arts Center in Beijing on May 15.