Author: Theodor Adorno

Cited by

• Cees Nooterboom (1)
  • IN: The Following Story (1994) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Modesty hesitates to express metaphysical concepts directly; if one tries, one delivers oneself up to jubilant misunderstanding.
    FROM: Notes on Literature, II, (1992), Book, Germany
• Geoff Dyer (2)
  • IN: But Beautiful: A book about Jazz (1996) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Profucers of great art are no demigods but fallible human beings, often with neurotic and damaged personalitites.
    FROM: Aesthetic Theory, (1970), Book, Germany
  • IN: Paris Trance (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Even the loveliest dream bears like a blemish its difference from reality, the awareness that what it grants is mere illusion. This is why precisely the loveliest dreams are as if blighted.
    FROM: Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life, (1951), Book, Germany
• Janette Turner Hospital (1)
  • IN: Orpheus Lost (2007) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The language of music is quite different from the language of intentionality. What it has to say is simultaneously revealed and concealed. It is demythologized prayer.
    FROM: Quasi una Fantasia, Essays on Modern Music, (1963), Book, Germany