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Dionysos Agonistes
Dionysos Agonistes

Author(s): Mardi Valgemäe
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Summary/Abstract: Americans have a saying that nothing is certain in life, except death and taxes. This semi-sociological statement, when purged of its materialistic impurities, may be refined into a metaphysical axiom on mortality: of all perceivable entities, only death is eternal. Even the universe, according to the latest calculations of cosmographers, will eventually die and become, as if in a Samuel Beckett play, an abode of cold stones.[...]

  • Issue Year: VII/2002
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 209-218
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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