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Tag Archives: Giacomo Puccini
manon lescaut: she was venus libertina
Perfide Manon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, and then he set out to live it… …He began to write a novel, of frenzied passion and bloodcurdling … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Prevost, Antoine Francois Prevost, Claire-Eliane Engel, Frederic Deloffre Sorbonne, Giacomo Puccini, Joseph Caraud painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manon Lescaut, Perfide Manon, Sir John Eyles
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the importance of bad art
Bohemia is beyond saving. The lesson being that a basically worthless and mediocre piece of literature can achieve more ill than a good book can ever achieve good. It is a paradox; and there is little power in the art … Continue reading
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Tagged Amerigo Vespucci, Bohemianism, Carmen opera, Charles Aznavour La Boheme, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Nadar, Giacomo Puccini, Gustave Courbet, Henri Murger, Henri Murger Vie de Boheme, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marie Vimal, Mimi Vie de Boheme, Puccini La Boheme
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TAKE A WALTZ: A Kampf of Bohemian Rhapsodies
Now in Vienna there’s ten pretty women There’s a shoulder where Death comes to cry There’s a lobby with nine hundred windows There’s a tree where the doves go to die There’s a piece that was torn from the morning … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Schnitzler, Beethoven, Elfriede Jelinek, Giacomo Puccini, Gilles Deleuze, Gustav Mahler, Hermann Bahr, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Lacan, John Champagne, Jules Wellesley, Karl Lueger, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Leonard Cohen, Maria Van Dijk, Michael Haneke, Richard Strauss, Sigmund Freud, Stanley Kubrick, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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HE SCRIPTED HIS OWN DESTINY
Call it balladeering of the part-time priest.A man caught in all the intensities and entanglements of being suspended somewhere between Demons and the call of Angels. First Abbe Prevost, a sometime cleric wrote his famous story, then set out to … Continue reading
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