The Meaning of Life (Very Short Introductions) by Terry Eagleton

Author:Terry Eagleton
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

The eclipse of meaning

Consider this brief exchange in Anton Chekhov’s play Three Sisters:

MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?

TOOZENBACH: Meaning? … Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that?

The snow is not a statement or a symbol. It is not, as far as we can tell, an allegory of the fact that the heavens are grieving. It is not trying to say anything, in the way that Philip Larkin imagines spring to be doing:

The trees are coming into leaf

Like something almost being said …

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.