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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Sacher-Masoch의 『카인의 유산 The Heritage of Cain』


"Heritage of Cain?" It is intended first to express the burden of crime and suffering inherited by humanity; however, this apparent cruelty conceals the more secret theme of the coldness of Nature, of the steppe, of the icy image of Mother wherein Cain discovers his own destiny; the coldness of the stern mother is in reality a transmutation of cruelty from which the new man emerges…

Cain and Christ bear the same mark, which leads to the crucification of Man “who knows no sexual love, no property, no fatherland, no cause, no work; who dies of his own willing, embodying the idea of humanity…"



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