Olavo de Carvalho January 30, 1997 Translation by Jules Lapprand Access to knowledge of a metaphysical order must first go through a moral and ethical understanding that doesn’t consist in “following” a pre-established moral or ethic, but on the contrary, in truly wanting to understand your own life and fulfill its meaning, facing all you…
Olavo de CarvalhoJanuary 30, 1997Translation by Jules Lapprand We get a foretaste of this irony in the scene with the dog. Why does the dog, at the moment when the couple is heading out on the rowboat, chase after the lady, barking? Was it that he foresaw something terrible about to happen? Or was it…
Olavo de Carvalho January 30th, 1997 Translation by Jules Lapprand Sunrise, directed by F.W. Murnau (1927) and based on a short story from The Excursion to Tilsit by Herrman Suderman, is by my account the finest film ever made. When we consider how the great Eisenstein painstakingly put together a collage images with the sole…