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On Pain at the End of Time

In Criticism by Paolo Rossi

1. Places of pure pain In his book The Myth on the Golden Age in the Renaissance, Harry Levin outlined a model of primitivism and millennialism which is worth recalling: “Standing here and wishing to …

The Metaphysics of the Plague – Guilt and Destiny

In Criticism by Sergio Givone

Introduction Why a metaphysics of the plague? Because the plague is a phenomenon that pertains to nature, but cannot be explained on a purely natural basis. There is something fated, in the plague, something like …