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..................................................................................................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE .................................................................................................................................... 14 HANDS.............................................................................

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.......................................................... 14 THE BOOK OF THE GROTESQUE..................................................................... .... Gripped by these stories and sketches of Sherwood Anderson’s small-town “grotesques,” I felt that he was opening for me new depths of experience, to... ...th, and at its best it is a terrible if narrow truth—but it is itself also grotesque, with 9 Winesburg, Ohio the tone of the authorial voice and the ... ... mad by the search for human connection. In the economy of Winesburg these grotesques matter less in their own right than as agents or symptoms of tha... ... condition, something deeply set in our natures. Nor are these people, the grotesques, simply to be pit- ied and dismissed; at some point in their liv... ... truth escapes.” Yet what do we have but words? They want, these Winesburg grotesques*, to unpack their hearts, to release emotions buried and festeri... ...l notice in these stories a recurrent pattern of theme and inci- dent: the grotesques, gathering up a little cour- age, venture out into the streets o... ...Willard, the young reporter who hasn’t yet lived long enough to be- come a grotesque. Hesitantly, fearfully, or with a sputtering incoherent rage, the... ...lage at the year’s end [which may open] the lips of the old man.” What the grotesques really need is each other, but their estrangement is so extreme ...

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... sleepwalkers. They weren’t passive zombies. Quite the reverse, they had become grotesque exaggerations of their real selves. Clearly Mrs Randerson...

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...The light and the dark shadows danced in grotesque shapes on the freshly painted green and cream walls, at times, reaching out, in mythical movements, towards the well baked off-white of the ceiling. A loud ticking alarm clock, from its place of importance on the ma...

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... specific elements, it is collocated in the category of annihilators and perifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd)....

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...rifractors of the convention (by the side of the comic, the ridicule, the grotesque, the absurd). Although it is an old construction of philosophy ... ...virtuosity to annihilate by the absurd, after Caragiale’s great lesson of grotesque, have crystallized the recipe of the radical gestures in the the... ...n, the surrealist presentation of the personages (“by that very fact, the grotesque destroys the norms of the common life, and in the case these one... ...rodying of the clichés compose the antinorm as a limit to the discredited grotesque. The anti norm constitutes a drastic warning to the monotonous ex... ...he social and individual life, intends to be a therapeutic literature: the grotesque hyperbole that realizes, the abolition of the evil, with the hel... ...uced. With that are put in evidence the dangers of the relativity. If the grotesque has become a present phenomenological category, why should be cr... ...ical category, why should be created a poetry made to measure? The social grotesque distinguishes itself with the absurd and the ridiculous. The lib... ...e before belonging to literature. If Bacovia, Urmuz, Arghezi ridicule the grotesque modernism and put in question the validity of the traditions, tod... ... more, the artifices of abnormality push the writing toward the farce. The grotesque dissolves the exasperating models, the parody discredits, the ic...

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...s wholly defined by the tension between being and Ie ought to be", and in grotesque and hopeless sacrificial courage casts his heart piece by piece ...

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...narcissists, there is, actually, a burning desire – nay, NEED – to be punished. In the grotesque mind of the narcissist, his punishment is equally h...

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...close screen, the door of which was kept shut during services, hiding this grotesque clockwork from sight. At present, however, the door was open, and... ... any given art period than the power of the master spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputin... ...distortion which is less the characteristic of British than of Continental grotesques of the period. All the eight were different from each other. A b...

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...ing taste which had given character to the mas- queraders. Be sure they were grotesque. There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm mu...

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...nd so we entered, I, dressed in dingy nineteenth-century garments, looking grotesque enough, garlanded with flowers, and surrounded by an ed- dying ma... ...and the Labourer, was the key to the whole position. No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you— and wildly incredible!—and yet even now there are ... ...is vague. Great shapes like big machines rose out of the dimness, and cast grotesque black shadows, in which dim spectral Morlocks sheltered from the ... ... of Unpolished Stone; into the abysses of the Cretaceous Sea; or among the grotesque saurians, the huge reptilian brutes of the Jurassic times. He may...

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...s which he turned upon Razumov seemed to be starting out of his head. This grotesqueness of aspect no longer shocked Razumov . He said with gloomy con... ...r. Razumov?” It seemed to Razumov that the floor was moving slightly. This grotesque man in a tight uniform was terrible. It was right that he should ... ... General T—’s goggle eyes waiting for him—the embodied power of autocracy, grotesque and terrible. He embodied the whole power of autocracy because he...

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... but what he judged neces- sary for his own welfare. Their misery was even grotesque. Faces, discolored by cold, were covered 24 Adieu with a layer o...

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...houted, sang; their bodies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks—these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an... ... of that apparition shining darkly far in its bony head that nod- ded with grotesque jerks. Kurtz—Kurtz—that means short in German—don’t it? Well, the...

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... beauty of all—the beauty of their ugliness—the beauty of the strange, the grotesque. These people are not even ugly; they are only plain. Many of the...

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...rt in the bosom of her family. So one morning she made her way towards the grotesque facade of the humble, silent home where she had spent her childho...

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...lennard by the perception of all that he had missed. He had been pitiably, grotesquely stu- pid; and there was irony in the thought that, but for the ... ...s humiliation, the distorting va- por against which his personality loomed grotesque and mean. Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest ...

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...1 H. G . Wells most urgent passages. There is a rebellious rippling of the grotesque under our utmost tragedy and gravity. One’s martialled phrases gr...

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... lack of poetic imagery, but it is free from the coarseness and vulgar and grotesque humor of the latter. It approaches the courtly epic in its introd...

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... Peleg, during the term of his chief-mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material ... ...anisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dol- phins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns. Gliding among them... ...er there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, ...

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... Peleg, during the term of his chief mateship, had built upon her original grotesqueness, and inlaid it, all over, with a quaintness both of material ... ... planisphere, abounding in centaurs, griffins, and dolphins, similar to the grotesque figures on the celestial globe of the moderns. Gliding among them,... ...er there. Many spare hours he spent, in carving the lid with all manner of grotesque figures and drawings; and it seemed that hereby he was striving, i...

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...d with another stroke knew that he had gained the shore. Before him rose a grotesque mass of rocks, that resembled noth- Alexandre Dumas 173 ing so m... ...ich hung, creaking and flapping in the wind, a sheet of tin covered with a grotesque representation of the Pont du Gard. This modern place of entertai...