By Ignat Avsey, Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Author note: Ignat Avsey (Translation)
Title note: unique name Ich warfare Jack Mortimer
Publish yr note: First released in 1933
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A taxi-driver in Thirties Vienna impersonates a homicide victim-with unsettling consequences
"One doesn't step into anyone's existence, no longer even a lifeless man's, with no need to stay it to the end."
A guy climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, supplies the identify of a inn, and ahead of he reaches it's been murdered: shot during the throat. And although Sponer has up to now devoted no crime, he's drawn into the past due Jack Mortimer's lifestyles, and may now not be capable of break out its tangles and intrigues ahead of it's too late...
Twice filmed, I used to be Jack Mortimer is a story of misappropriated identification as darkly attractive and twisting because the books of Patricia Highsmith.
Alexander Lernet-Holenia was once born in Vienna in 1897. He served within the Austro-Hungarian military within the First international warfare and have become a protégé of Rainer Maria Rilke. in the course of his existence he wrote poetry, novels, performs and used to be a profitable screenwriter. His uneasy courting with the nationwide Socialist celebration led to his elimination from prominence in 1944, yet after the top of the second one global battle, he back turned a necessary determine in Austrian cultural lifestyles. He died in 1976.
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,6 I am no prophet舒and here舗s no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid. Š And would it have been worth it, after all, After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a half7 To roll it toward some overwhelming question, To say: 舖I am Lazarus, come from the dead,8 Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all舗舒 If one, settling a pillow by her head, Should say: 舖That is not what I meant at all.
In 舖The Metaphysical Poets舗 ( 1921 ) he defined 舖dissociation of sensibility舗 as a break between feeling and thought that had occurred as English poetry was written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Eliot advocated the reuniting of emotion and intellect in works of literature. Eliot was also a playwright; among his major dramatic works are Murder in the Cathedral, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party, and The Elder Statesman. Shortly after the publication of his second masterpiece, Four Quartets (1943), Eliot received the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as countless awards and honorary doctorates.
I think Eliot intended that people not read the poem in isolation, because it makes sense only to the extent that we appreciate it as being in dialogue with the vast tradition that preceded it. Eliot makes this point in one of his best-known essays, 舖Tradition and the Individual Talent舗 (see 舖For Further Reading舗), where he writes, 舖No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists.