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Wie wundervoll sind diese Wesen,           
Die, was nicht deutbar, dennoch deuten,
Was nie geschrieben wurde, lesen,
Verworrenes beherrschend binden
Und Wege noch im Ewig-Dunkeln finden

Le monde va finir . . . le progrés aura si bien atrophié en nous toute la partie spirituelle, que rien parmi les réve- ries sanguinaires des utopistes ne pourra étre comparé à ses résultats positifs . . . Mais ce n'est pas par des insti- tutions politiques que se manifestera la ruine universelle (ou le progrès universel. car peu m'importe le nom). Ce sera par I'avilissement des coeurs ... Charles Baudelaire

The independent artist and intellectual are among the few remaining personalities equipped to resist and to fight the stereotyping and consequent death of genuinely living things. Fresh perception now involves the capacity to continually unmask and to smash the stereotypes of vision ond intellect with which modern communications swamp us. These worlds of mass-art and mass-thought are increasingly geared to lhe demands of politics. That is why it is in politics that intel- lectual solidarity and effort must be centered. If the artist does not relate himself to the value of truth in political struggle, he connot responsibly cope with the whole of live experience. C. Wright Mills

Difatti. nella laida invasione dell'irrealtà, I'arte, che viene a rendere la realtà, può rappresentare quasi la sola speranza del mondo. In una folla soggetta o un imbroglio, la presenza anche di uno solo, che non si lascia imbrogliare, può fornire già un primo punlo di vantaggio. Ma il punto, poi, si moltiplica per mille e per centomila se quell'uno è uno scrittore (s'intende un poeta). Elsa Morante

Soy hombre: duro poco
y es enorme la noche.
Pero miro hocia arriba:
las estrellas escriben.
Sin entender comprendo:
también soy escritura
y en este mismo instante
alguien me deletrea.

Octavio Paz

Salzburg Information Center offers cultural und historical information. Idea und realisation by Bernhard Nocker, Institute of CS of University Salzburg.

With kindly permission of Dr. Helga Rabl-Stadler (Direktorium der Salzburger Festspiele).

With kindly permission of Dr. Heinrich Wiesmüller (former Direktorium of Salzburger Festspiele).

With kindly support of Dr. Vrtal (Ticket Office Salzburger Festspiele).

Hypermediaversion, Status Nov. 30th 1994

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