Paranoia and Modernity - Cervantes to RousseauPaperback
Paranoia and Modernity - Cervantes to RousseauPaperback Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has…
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Paranoia and Modernity - Cervantes to RousseauPaperback
Don Quixote is the first great modern paranoid adventurer.... The all-encompassing conspiracy, very much in its original Rousseauvian cast, has become almost the normal way of representing society and its institutions since World War Two, giving impetus to heroic plots and counter-plots in a hundred films and in the novels of Burroughs, Heller, Ellison, Pynchon, Kesey, Mailer, DeLillo, and others.--from Paranoia and ModernityParanoia, suspicion, and control have preoccupied key Western intellectuals since the sixteenth century. Grandiosity and persecution define the characters of Swift's Gulliver, Stendhal's Julien Sorel, Melville's Ahab, Dostoyevsky's Underground Man, Ibsen's Masterbuilder Solness, Strindberg's Captain (in The Father), Kafka's K., and Joyce's autobiographical hero Stephen Dedalus....
Paranoia is a dominant concern in modern literature, and its