Modernism by Butler Christopher;

Author:Butler, Christopher;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

But you have to choose: to live or recount.

This last sentence is the key to the existentialist liberation from a modernist aesthetic modelling of life - towards a kind of living spontaneity, which becomes existentialist responsibility. Roquentin’s ‘sudden revelation … I am as happy as the hero of a novel’ stems from a feeling of complete contingency, whereas Woolf’s led to a metaphysically acceptable sense of connectedness (and of relationship to the object). For Roquentin:

existence had suddenly unveiled itself. It had lost its harmless appearance as an abstract category: it was the very stuff of things, that root was steeped in existence. Or rather the root, the park gates, the sparse grass on the lawn, all that had vanished; the diversity of things, their individuality, was only an appearance, a veneer. This veneer had melted, leaving only soft, monstrous masses, in disorder - naked, with a frightening obscene nakedness….

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