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"Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt" ("Only he who knows yearning") is a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.The poem appears in the 11th chapter of Book Four of Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
"Loneliness" is a short-story by Charles Bukowski collected in his 1973 collection South of No North, originally published by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press. It's the first short-story of the book. [1]
The Tree of Man (1955), a book about a farmer and his wife struggling to build a future in rural Australia, was his major literary success. Modern humanity's sense of loneliness and emptiness is a recurrent topic in his literary works. His other well-known works include The Vivisector (1970) and The Eye of the Storm (1973). [3] [6]
Loneliness is an unpleasant emotional response to perceived isolation. Loneliness is also described as social pain – a psychological mechanism that motivates individuals to seek social connections. It is often associated with a perceived lack of connection and intimacy. Loneliness overlaps and yet is distinct from solitude. Solitude is simply ...
Due to the success of Weiss' previous novels, the book was, almost simultaneously with its American publication, also published in the United Kingdom and in translation in France, Germany, and Italy. In popular culture , Naked Came I was the title of the sensationalized memoir of Opus the Penguin in the Berke Breathed comic strip , Bloom County .
Shuntarō Tanikawa (谷川 俊太郎, Tanikawa Shuntarō, December 15, 1931 – November 13, 2024) [1] was a Japanese poet and translator. [2] He was considered to be one of the most widely read and highly regarded Japanese poets, both in Japan and abroad. [3]
Philip Elliot Slater (May 15, 1927 – June 20, 2013 [2]) was an American sociologist and writer.He was the author of the bestselling 1970 book on American culture, The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970) and of numerous other books and articles.
The Surrealist effect was enhanced by collages in the style of Max Ernst, so-called xylography, which Peter Weiss created for the book. Coachman has been linked both to the French nouveau roman of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Raymond Queneau , as well as to French absurdist works by Samuel Beckett , Eugene Ionesco , and Jean Genet . [ 7 ]