Sangri La sau Tibetul fantasmelor
Shangri La or the Tibet of Phantoms
Author(s): Charlie BuffetSubject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Institutul Cultural Român
Keywords: Lost Horizon; James Hilton; Frank Capra; Shangri La; Tibet; Nazi ideology; Das Blaue Licht; Leni Riefenstahl; Adolf Hitler; Heinrick Himmler; Ernst Schäffer; Bruno Begar; Yamyang Norbu
Summary/Abstract: Lost Horizons (1933), James Hilton’s bestseller to become in 1939 the first ever “paperback” and a less successful movie directed by Frank Capra, was F.D. Roosevelt’s favourite book, inspiring him with the optimism and energy that allowed him to learn to walk again at 40 and that he hoped to breath into the country with the help of the New Deal. Shangri La, a lost valley somewhere in Tibet, became in the United States the utopia of eternal youth and blessed happiness. Another influence of the book in the epoch has to do with the Nazi ideology.
Journal: Lettre Internationale - Ediţia română
- Issue Year: 2006
- Issue No: 59
- Page Range: 86-87
- Page Count: 2
- Language: Romanian
