Oslo, 31. august

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«En mesterlig fremstilling av et menneskes forfall og vei mot det store intet.» (Anmeldelse av Sten Egil Dahls Uten tittel i Reprise, 2006)

«Drug addicts are the mystics of a materialist age who, no longer having the strength to animate things and sublimate them into symbols, undertake the inverted task of reducing them, wearing them down and eating them away until they reach a core of nothingness. They sacrifice to a symbolism of darkness to combat a sun-fetishism which they hate because it hurts their tired eyes.»

«He already wanted to go away, to go somewhere else. The night was beginning. The night, perpetual movement. He had to move ceaselessly, to move from one point to another, not stopping anywhere. To flee, to flee. Intoxication is movement. And yet one remains still.» (Pierre-Eugène Drieu La Rochelles Le feu follet, 1931)

Ut for vestkanten (Pierre-Eugène Drieu La Rochelles Le feu follet, 1931)

«Kom igjen, hva da?» sier hovedpersonen Anders fortvilet i filmen Oslo, 31. august, Joachim Triers melankolske palimpsest over karakteren Alain fra Drieu La Rochelles roman og Louis Malles film Le feu follet. Vinduet har sett filmen, som har kinopremiere titteldatoen, og finner flere fellestrekk med foreleggene. Tekst Jon Inge Faldalen

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