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    Acting Out:Cuban Artists Challenge to the State

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    Five of the videos in Coco Fusco’s exhibition Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island at KW were filmed in Cuba, where the artist has collaborated with local artists on a range of projects for over thirty years. The videos explore the fraught relationship between civic engagement and the Cuban state. Coco Fusco will be joined by Cuban artist and former political prisoner Hamlet Lavastida, and Cuban poet and essayist Antonio José Ponte for a discussion about Fusco’s work and the current state of artistic activism in relation to cultural politics in Cuba today. Hamlet Lavastida is a Cuban artist, based in Berlin. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts San Alejandro and the University of the Arts (ISA) in Havana. Lavastida reinterprets the role of Cuban political rhetoric and iconography in public culture. He focuses on the ways that Cuban propaganda shapes and distorts history. He explores the visualization of state ideology in his videos, collages, drawings, and public art. Lavastida’s work has been shown at Documenta 15 (Kassel, Germany); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid); Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin); Center of Contemporary Art Łaźnia (Gdańsk) and Center of Contemporary Art, Zamek Ujazdowski (Warsaw). Antonio José Ponte was born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1964. He first worked as a hydraulics engineer, and later as a professor of literature, script writer and author. He is Deputy Director of the online daily Diario de Cuba, founded in Madrid in 2009. His published work includes the essays Un seguidor de Montaigne mira La Habana (1995), Las comidas profundas (1997), El libro perdido de los origenistas (2004), Villa Marista en plata (2010) and La lengua suelta y Diccionario de la lengua suelta (2021), the short stories Cuentos de todas partes del Imperio (2000) and Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos (2005), a book of poems with the title Asiento en las ruinas (2005), and the two novels Contrabando de sombras (2002) and La fiesta vigilada (2007). Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, Latinx Art Award, a Fulbright fellowship and the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in the 56th Venice Biennale, Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, three Whitney Biennials (2022, 2008 and 1993), and several other international exhibitions. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, the Centre Pompidou, the Imperial War Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. She is the author of Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours (2001) and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is a Professor of Art at Cooper Union.Coco Fusco Hamlet Lavastida Antonio José Ponte An event of KW Institute for Contemporary Art in cooperation with ICI BerlinFünf der Videos in Coco Fuscos Ausstellung Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island in den KW wurden auf Kuba gedreht, wo die Künstlerin seit über dreißig Jahren mit lokalen Künstler*innen in einer Reihe von Projekten zusammenarbeitet. Die Videos thematisieren das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen zivilem Engagement und dem kubanischen Staat. Mit Coco Fusco diskutieren der kubanische Künstler und ehemalige politische Gefangene Hamlet Lavastida und der kubanische Dichter und Essayist Antonio José Ponte über ihr Werk und den aktuellen Stand des künstlerischen Aktivismus in Bezug auf die Kulturpolitik in Kuba heute. Hamlet Lavastida ist ein kubanischer Künstler, der in Berlin wohnt. Er studierte Malerei an der Akademie der Künste San Alejandro und der Universität der Künste (ISA) in Havanna. Lavastida interpretiert die Rolle der politischen Rhetorik und Ikonographie in der öffentlichen Kultur Kubas neu. Er konzentriert sich auf die Art und Weise, wie die kubanische Propaganda die Geschichte prägt und verzerrt. Anhand seiner Videos, Collagen, Zeichnungen und seiner Kunst im öffentlichen Raum erforscht er die Visualisierung staatlicher Ideologie. Lavastidas Arbeiten wurden auf der Documenta 15 (Kassel, Deutschland) gezeigt, im Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), im Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), im Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst Łaźnia (Danzig) und im Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zamek Ujazdowski (Warschau). Antonio José Ponte wurde 1964 im kubanischen Matanzas geboren. Er arbeitete zuerst als Hydraulik-Ingenieur und dann als Literaturprofessor, Drehbuchautor und Schriftsteller. Er ist stellvertretender Direktor der 2009 in Madrid gegründeten Online-Tageszeitung Diario de Cuba. Zu seinen veröffentlichten Werken gehören die Essays Un seguidor de Montaigne mira La Habana (1995), Las comidas profundas (1997), El libro perdido de los origenistas (2004), Villa Marista en plata (2010) und La lengua suelta y Diccionario de la lengua suelta (2021), die Kurzgeschichten Cuentos de todas partes del Imperio (2000) und Un arte de hacer ruinas y otros cuentos (2005), ein Gedichtband mit dem Titel Asiento en las ruinas (2005) und die beiden Romane Contrabando de sombras (2002) und La fiesta vigilada (2007). Coco Fusco ist eine interdisziplinär arbeitende Künstlerin und Autorin. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, darunter ein Guggenheim-Stipendium, der American Academy of Arts and Letters Award, der Latinx Art Award, ein Fulbright-Stipendium und der Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fuscos Performances und Videos wurden auf der 56. Biennale von Venedig, bei Frieze Special Projects, Basel Unlimited, drei Whitney-Biennalen (2022, 2008 und 1993) und mehreren anderen internationalen Ausstellungen gezeigt. Ihre Werke sind Teil der ständigen Sammlungen des Museum of Modern Art, des Art Institute of Chicago, des Walker Art Center, des Centre Pompidou, des Imperial War Museum und des Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Sie ist die Autorin von Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba (2015), English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours (2001) und A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). Sie ist Kunstprofessorin an der Cooper Union.Coco Fusco Hamlet Lavastida Antonio José Ponte Ein Event von KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berli

    Crowdsourcing to co-design meaningful social change

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    Old Town Bari is the center of Bari City and the main city of Apulia region, in the southeast of Italy. For ages, it was a place neglected to its own community due to the high criminality level. This study follows a social innovation initiative launched by a young Bari collective to leverage education using crowdsourcing knowledge, in order to better understand how to develop crowdsourcing for effective social innovation. To address this research question, the author conducted action research on a 12 days workshop, organized by the collective, in the Old Town of Bari. The workshop aimed to create a School Open Source with the help of the crowd, which was engaged on promoting and co-creating the social initiative. Furthermore the researcher collected and analyzed the online discussions, paths and topics from the days of the workshop to the opening of the School. The study reveals how crowdsourcing acted as an opportunity to build a new community which revitalized the local social environment. The author also found that design processes played a major role on the community creation and instructed new governance models. Additionally, digital communications built a network, which is able to generate and regenerate the local socio-economical fabric and connect it with the rest of the world. These results indicate a first step towards a proposal for an open innovation model for social innovation which combines online crowd engagement with offline activities and where design processes nurture the sense of belonging between community and territory

    An Analysis of Speech Act in the Animation Movie: Coco

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    Linguistic aspects are very important in English. When linguistics became a linguistic science, people studied it in several branches of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, semantics, sociolinguistics, and Practical. Speech act is one of the important components of pragmatics because speech act is a branch of pragmatics, related to all types of utterances made by speakers and its meaning depends on the point of view of the speaker. speaker and interlocutor. Speech acts are divided into three types: speech, speech, and speech. As technology advances, more media can support the learning process making it more enjoyable. Like learning by reading novels, watching movies and even listening to songs. This search is an analytical speech act introduced by Searle in Cartoons: Coco. The problem of this research is: what types of speech acts are proposed by the main characters in cartoons: Coco and what is the most dominant speech act among the main characters in cartoons: Coco. This study employed a descriptive qualitative methodology. With the qualitative descriptive method, information is gathered via the use of words and images rather than figures. Interviews, field notes, photos, videotapes, private documents, notes or memos, and other documents can all provide data. The author of this research does a case study, provides a basic description, and goes over the language. Because the study's focus is on natural events or symptoms, the author employs this kind of qualitative research in it. The author of this paper will examine Coco, the cartoon's primary character, through an analysis of her verbal acts. Results of the study is: to explore the type of speech act that the main character proposes in the cartoon: Coco and to find out which speech act is most dominant among the main characters in an animated film: Coco. In this study, the author only focuses on studying one type of linguistic behavior, which is linguistic behavior

    The Effect of Morphometry, Land-Use and Lithology on Landslides Susceptibility: An Exploratory Analysis

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    GIS features provide simple and useful tools for landslides susceptibility and hazard studies, allowing the identification and the quantification of predisposing factors, and their relative importance. In lithologically homogeneous areas, the most influent factor of landslides is slope morphometry, in particular inclination, height and form. Moreover, within a hydrographic basin, landslides are coupled with drainage network. In fact landslides density and drainage density are positively correlated. Furthermore, human activity strongly influences the development of landslides. In our previous works, we introduced MSI (Morphometric Slope Index) as general index for slope morphometry, combining the main linear and areal morphometric features (area, form, length, inclination, width). Its formula is: MSI=A3D/A2D·L·Rc (where A3D is the three-dimensional area of the slope, A2D is its plan area, L is the slope length and Rc is the circularity ratio). We tested MSI as driver of different erosion landforms, demonstrating its influence in determining, on the one hand, the development and the final arrangement of calanchi drainage network (the typical Italian badlands), and, on the other hand, the erosion processes within them, mainly gullies and landslides. The present study is an exploratory application of this index to landslides susceptibility, aimed to analyze the combined effect of slope morphometry (summarized in MSI), lithology and land-use on the distribution of landslides in small catchments. The study is located in the Italian periadriatic foredeep, in the Abruzzo Region. This study has reinforced our perspective about the validity of the application of the techniques of geomorphometric analysis to the landslides susceptibility. Especially we consider this approach an efficient tool to summarize different controlling factors

    Resultaten van de CoCo-module "Groeien planten beter met chilisalpeter" bij 4 havo leerlingen

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    Het ministerie van OC&W heeft het doel gesteld om de bèta en technische opleidingen aantrekkelijker te maken, door o.m. het huidige scheikunde curriculum te actualiseren. In dit beschrijvende, kwalitatieve onderzoek stellen we de onderzoeksvraag of de context-en-conceptbenadering (CoCo-benadering), die gehanteerd gaat worden bij het nieuwe scheikunde curriculum, een oplossing is voor drie pijnpunten, die geconstateerd zijn bij het huidige scheikunde curriculum. Dit onderzoek is gericht op de leerervaringen, die een groep 4 havo leerlingen opgedaan heeft tijdens doorlopen van een aangepaste versie van de CoCo-module, genaamd “groeien planten beter met chilisalpeter”. Conceptmaps, leerzinnen en de resultaten van een cognitieve toets zijn hierbij gehanteerd als onderzoeksinstrument. Uit de beantwoording van de deelvragen, van de onderzoeksvraag, is geconcludeerd dat de CoCo-benadering een goede start is voor het adresseren van de pijnpunten van het huidige scheikunde curriculum. Oefenen met de de- en recontextualisatie van de concepten in de les en tijdens cognitieve toetsen is noodzakelijk. Het is ook evident dat de docent expliciete, continue aandacht aan de leerlingen moet schenken om de koppelingen tussen de contexten en de concepten te leggen.Science EducationScience Education and CommunicationApplied Science

    Emilio Coco, crisol de la poesía italiana, española y latinoamericana contemporáneas

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    Esta tesis es un estudio completo sobre la figura de Emilio Coco y más concretamente sobre su labor de divulgación de la poesía contemporánea española y latinoamericana en Italia y viceversa. Su principal objetivo es resaltar el papel clave de este renombrado hispanista que con sus estudios, traducciones y poemas ha conseguido romper el estado de incomunicación entre las tres tradiciones literarias, facilitando un enriquecimiento recíproco y la intensificación de las relaciones culturales entre ellos. En el primer capítulo presentamos a nuestro autor abordando sus tres facetas, traductor, editor y poeta, pues las tres mantienen un diálogo constante a lo largo de nuestro trabajo, a través de una breve noticia biobibliográfica y una entrevista personal. A continuación se presentan los cinco capítulos centrales en los que llevamos a cabo un estudio de cada una de estas facetas, teniendo en cuenta para la primera una visión personal del autor sobre el arte de traducir, una selección de los poemas traducidos de los respectivos autores enmarcados en un breve panorama de la poesía desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días y una clasificación cronológica y breve reseña de las antologías, libros y revistas que incluyen sus traducciones; para la segunda sus colecciones de poesía; y para la tercera un análisis de su poética acompañada por una muestra de sus poemas y su alcance en revistas italianas y extranjeras. Esta tesis es un estudio completo sobre la figura de Emilio Coco y más concretamente sobre su labor de divulgación de la poesía contemporánea española y latinoamericana en Italia y viceversa. Su principal objetivo es resaltar el papel clave de este renombrado hispanista que con sus estudios, traducciones y poemas ha conseguido romper el estado de incomunicación entre las tres tradiciones literarias, facilitando un enriquecimiento recíproco y la intensificación de las relaciones culturales entre ellos. En el primer capítulo presentamos a nuestro autor abordando sus tres facetas, traductor, editor y poeta, pues las tres mantienen un diálogo constante a lo largo de nuestro trabajo, a través de una breve noticia biobibliográfica y una entrevista personal. A continuación se presentan los cinco capítulos centrales en los que llevamos a cabo un estudio de cada una de estas facetas, teniendo en cuenta para la primera una visión personal del autor sobre el arte de traducir, una selección de los poemas traducidos de los respectivos autores enmarcados en un breve panorama de la poesía desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días y una clasificación cronológica y breve reseña de las antologías, libros y revistas que incluyen sus traducciones; para la segunda sus colecciones de poesía; y para la tercera un análisis de su poética acompañada por una muestra de sus poemas y su alcance en revistas italianas y extranjeras. Esta tesis es un estudio completo sobre la figura de Emilio Coco y más concretamente sobre su labor de divulgación de la poesía contemporánea española y latinoamericana en Italia y viceversa. Su principal objetivo es resaltar el papel clave de este renombrado hispanista que con sus estudios, traducciones y poemas ha conseguido romper el estado de incomunicación entre las tres tradiciones literarias, facilitando un enriquecimiento recíproco y la intensificación de las relaciones culturales entre ellos. En el primer capítulo presentamos a nuestro autor abordando sus tres facetas, traductor, editor y poeta, pues las tres mantienen un diálogo constante a lo largo de nuestro trabajo, a través de una breve noticia biobibliográfica y una entrevista personal. A continuación se presentan los cinco capítulos centrales en los que llevamos a cabo un estudio de cada una de estas facetas, teniendo en cuenta para la primera una visión personal del autor sobre el arte de traducir, una selección de los poemas traducidos de los respectivos autores enmarcados en un breve panorama de la poesía desde los años 60 hasta nuestros días y una clasificación cronológica y breve reseña de las antologías, libros y revistas que incluyen sus traducciones; para la segunda sus colecciones de poesía; y para la tercera un análisis de su poética acompañada por una muestra de sus poemas y su alcance en revistas italianas y extranjeras. ABSTRACT This thesis is a comprehensive study of the figure of Emilio Coco and his work to extend knowledge about Spanish and Latin American contemporary poetry in Italy and vice versa. Its main objective is to highlight the key role of this renowned Spanish studies scholar, who with his studies, translations and poems, has overcome the divide between these three literary traditions, facilitating mutual enrichment and the strengthening of cultural relations between them. In the first chapter, we present our author through a brief bio-bibliographical note and a personal interview, where we address his three facets as translator, editor and poet. Next we present the five main chapters of this thesis where a study of each of these facets is carried out; first we present his views on the art of translation, a selection of translated poems and their authors considered within a brief overview of poetry from the 60s to the present day. A chronological classification and brief revision of the anthologies, books and magazines that published his translations are also included. To account for his facet as editor, the collections of poetry he edited are considered, and finally an analysis of his poetic production is presented, accompanied by a sample of his poems and a reflection upon the impact and influence they had in Italian and foreign journals

    My No.1 - for timeless women naistenvaatemallisto syksy-talvi 2013-2014 Coco Chanelin innoittamana

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    Työn aiheena on Coco Chaneliin pohjautuvan käyntikorttimalliston suunnittelu. Mallisto on naistenvaatemallisto syksy – talvi 2013-2014 ja se sisältää 15 vaatekappaletta. Suunnittelija haluaa malliston olevan työelämä- ja tulevaisuuslähtöinen, joten suunniteltavan malliston tarkoitus on tulevaisuudessa toimia suunnittelijalle käyntikorttina työnhakutilanteessa. Mallistolla pyritään syventämään suunnittelijan taitoja ja vahvistamaan suunnittelijaidentiteettiä. Työ sisältää tutkimusosuuden, jossa perehdytään Coco Chanelin elämään suunnittelijana. Tekijä vertailee tutkimusosuuden lisäksi itseään ja Chanelia toisiinsa suunnittelijoina Papanekin funktioanalyysin avulla ja tekee sen perustella yhteenvedon heidän yhtäläisyyksistään ja epäyhtäläisyyksistä. Työn tutkimuksellista osuutta tukee Pirkko Anttilan kriittisrealistinen evaluaatio malli, joka kuvastaa luovan projektin etenemistä. Työn lopullisia tuloksia ovat valmis mallistokokonaisuus, joka tulee toimimaan suunnittelijalle esittelymateriaalina, neljä toteutettua tuotetta suunnitellusta mallistosta sekä kirjallinen tutkimusosuus Coco Chanelista. Suunnittelija analysoi työn tuloksia SWOT-analyysin avulla ja hän toivoo saavansa asiantuntijapalautetta Stockmannin muodin studion designer managerilta, nykyiseltä työnantajalta, Luisa Laineelta, suunnittelija Milla Terholta sekä brändimanageri Kathleen Hyytiseltä, jota hän tarkastelee työn kannalta. Työn tekijä pohtii työtä kokonaisuudessaan asiantuntijapalautteen lisäksi myös omasta näkökulmastaan ja kertoo pohdinnassa omat ajatuksensa lopullisesta työstä.The subject of the thesis was to design a collection based on Coco Chanel. The collection will serve as a business card. The collection is a women's collection for autumn - winter 2013-2014 and it includes 15 pieces of clothing. The author wanted the collection to derive from work and future, so the collection was planned for the future to operate as a business card of the author applying for a job. The collection aims to deepen the skills of the author and to strengthen the identity of the author as a designer. The work includes a research part, in which the author discusses the life of designer Coco Chanel. The author also compares herself with Coco Chanel as a designer with the help of the Papanek function analysis and summarizes the similarities and differences of the designers. Pirkko Anttila’s critical realistic evaluation model supports the research work and helps to reflect the creative progress of the project. The final result of the thesis is a collection which will function as a presentation material for the designer. The final result includes four manufactured pieces of clothes from the collection and a written overview of Coco Chanel. The designer analysis the results obtained through the work with the help of the SWOT analysis and she wish that she could get expert feedback from Stockmann's design manager Luisa Laine, designer Milla Terho, and brand manager Kathleen Hyytinen that she consider through the thesis. The author considers the work as a whole from her own perspective and reflects her own thoughts of the final work

    Inter-Calibration and Statistical Validation of Topside Ionosphere Electron Density Observations Made by CSES-01 Mission

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    The China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite (CSES-01) provides in situ electron density (Ne) observations through Langmuir probes (LPs) in the topside ionosphere since February 2018. CSES-01 is a sun-synchronous satellite probing the ionosphere around two fixed local times (LTs), 14 LT in the daytime sector and 02 LT in the night-time sector, at an altitude of about 500 km. Previous studies evidenced that CSES-01 seems to underestimate Ne measurements with respect to those acquired by similar satellites or obtained from different instruments. To overcome this issue, we calibrated CSES-01 LP Ne observations through Swarm B satellite data, which flies approximately at CSES-01 altitude. As a first step, Swarm B LP Ne observations were calibrated through Faceplate (FP) Ne observations from the same satellite. Such calibration allowed solving the Ne overestimation made by Swarm LP during nighttime for low solar activity. Then, the calibrated Swarm B LP Ne observations were used to calibrate CSES-01 Ne observations on a statistical basis. Finally, the goodness of the proposed calibration procedure was statistically assessed through a comparison with Ne observations by incoherent scatter radars (ISRs) located at Jicamarca, Arecibo, and Millstone Hill. The proposed calibration procedure allowed solving the CSES-01 Ne underestimation issue for both daytime and nighttime sectors and brought CSES-01 Ne observations in agreement with corresponding ones measured by Swarm B, ISRs, and with those modelled by the International Reference Ionosphere (IRI). This is a first fundamental step towards a possible future inclusion of CSES-01 Ne observations in the dataset underlying IRI for the purpose of improving the description of the topside ionosphere made by IRI

    Polar Cap Patches Scaling Properties: Insights from Swarm Data

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    Among the effects of space weather, the degradation of air traffic communications and satellite-based navigation systems are the most notable. For this reason, it is of uttermost importance to understand the nature and origin of ionospheric irregularities that are at the base of the observed communication outages. Here we focus on polar cap patches (PCPs) that constitute a special class of ionospheric irregularities observed at very high latitudes in the F region. To this purpose we use the so-called PCP flag, a Swarm Level 2 product, that allows for identifying PCPs. We relate the presence of PCPs to the values of the first- and second-order scaling exponents and intermittency estimated from Swarm A electron density fluctuations and to the values of the Rate Of change of electron Density Index (RODI) for two different levels of geomagnetic activity, over a time span of approximately 3.5 years starting on 16 July 2014. Our findings show that values of RODI, first- and second-order scaling exponents and intermittency corresponding to measurements taken inside PCPs differ from those corresponding to measurements taken outside PCPs. Additionally, the values of the first- and second-order scaling exponents and of intermittency indicate that PCPs are in a turbulent state. Investigation of the coincidence of loss of lock (LoL) events with PCPs displayed that approximately 57.4% of LoLs in the Northern hemisphere and 45.7% in the Southern hemisphere occur in coincidence of PCPs when disturbed geomagnetic activity is considered. During quiet geomagnetic conditions these percentages decrease to 51.4% in the Northern hemisphere and to 20.1% in the Southern hemisphere

    Des vocations en échec ? Le destin de l’écrivain et de la littérature dans Un coco de génie de Louis Dumur

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    The article presents the profile of Louis Dumur, a French writer of Swiss origin, one of the founders and indefatigable editor of new Mercure de France. Although Dumur was an average poet and playwright and author of nationalist texts, he wrote a novel Un coco de génie (1902), in which he addresses the issue of the writer’s vocation and the mission of literature. The story of a seedman’s son, who suddenly discovers his literary talent and faces reluctance from the uncultivated local community, is a satire on the petty bourgeoisie society. It is all the more virulent because the young creator turns out to be a somnambulist who recreates masterpieces of world literature. This unconscious rewriting leads the first-person narrator of the novel to reflect on the process of creating itself. Thus Dumur anticipates the appearance of the concept of intertextuality and the text being a mosaic of quotations
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