Litost -- Portrait of a Cruel Artist

 
 
 
 
 

by GYedwab

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An attempt to understand a type of artist, using the Czech idea of "litost" as put forward through Milan Kundera. Artists who fall under this type include Antonin Artaud and his Theater of Cruelty, Jerzy Grotowski and his Poor Theater, John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground.

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