“Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.” MelancholyTailsCoinsUtopiaUtopianRevulsionStasis Author:Gunter Grass
“I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another... of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next... of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.” NextSpeakProgressInsightMelancholyTailsCoinsUtopiaUtopianRevulsionStasis Author:Gunter Grass
“If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.” IfsAgeConsciousnessPrinciplesConflictAbsolutesBusyDawnMelancholyLeisureUtopiaModernismUtopian Author:Gunter Grass
“Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.” MindStatesFeelingsLife IsIndividualCausesClassDespairMassPrivilegeProductionsExceptionMelancholyPhenomenonState Of MindQuotaClass Privilege Author:Gunter Grass
