metastages and more...

Interesting description of part of the process we have been, in my case unwittingly, undergoing thus far:

"...characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no-one else has discovered or said something essential about"

And, interestingly, tying in to the Invisible Cities discussion we had, the next line is as follows:

"But isn't it true that an author can only write about himself?"

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, p215


Also, I know you're uncomfortable with the 'All the world's a stage' concept that has been coming up both in class and in our discussions, and I am aware that we're sailing a little close to the wind with the cast idea, but I thought you might appreciate this nonetheless:

'A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.'
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, p247

All the world's a meta-stage, perhaps?


The image is an untitled Gregory Crewdson photograph referencing the character of Ophelia

Architecture and Literature

This isn't particularly relevant for the way that we have been discussing the relationship of architecture and literature, but interesting nonetheless.

'As for Proust, number of his crucial "recollections" in A la Recherche... were provoked by architectural experience. But, more to the point, we read in the triumphant finale of the book, Time Regained, how he referred to "my labours as an architect" and the idea of "the edifice I had to construct".' - ideas of the individual's projected self-image within the collective being alluded to?

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/colin-st-john-wilson--the-kindred-arts-of-literature-and-architecture-679017.html