BLACK DAMASCUS ROAD
What is wrong with Paul, the character of this short story, other than the fact that he cannot reach his own depths – enough to know what he wants or does not want from life? Zimbabwe is not “his” in a true sense – he lives a dream life, neither fully awake nor fully asleep, but inbetween. Perhaps is is the nature of his enduring somnabulism that causes him to finally “pull the pin” on life as he has come to know it?
Jentsch believes that a particularly favourable condition for awakening uncanny feelings is created when there is intellectual uncertainty whether an object is alive or not, and when an inanimate object becomes too much like an animate one.
http://people.emich.edu/acoykenda/uncanny1.htm
What is wrong with Paul, the character of this short story, other than the fact that he cannot reach his own depths – enough to know what he wants or does not want from life? Zimbabwe is not “his” in a true sense – he lives a dream life, neither fully awake nor fully asleep, but inbetween. Perhaps is is the nature of his enduring somnabulism that causes him to finally “pull the pin” on life as he has come to know it?
No comments:
Post a Comment