The Aesthetics of Silence
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The Aesthetics of Silence is an essay by Susan Sontag first published in book form in Styles of Radical Will. She examines three 20th century intellectuals who - after having produced work in their younger years - stopped making anything as they grew older. Her case rests on Arthur Rimbaud, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Marcel Duchamp.
- "The scene changes to an empty room.
- Rimbaud has gone to Abyssinia to make his fortune in the slave trade. Wittgenstein, after a period as a village school-teacher, has chosen menial work as a hospital orderly. Duchamp has turned to chess. Accompanying these exemplary renunciations of a vocation, each man has declared that he regards his previous achievements in poetry, philosophy, or art as trifling, of no importance. "
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