Inspired by Le Clezio’s Nobel Prize

Primitive Other, depraved, and degenerate
Modern Individualism, rational and materialistic
“Explorer Of A Humanity Beyond And Below
The Reigning Civilization".
The premise involves an action adventure story

Dissimilar voices that oppose the current model
Of our reigning civilization.
Ancient ruins from a long-reigning civilization
The Ten Commandments constitute the supreme standard of ethics
Of our generation and of our reigning civilization

He moves freely, without restriction, from one continent to another,
Fusing ideas and images
From different kinds of literature and culture
The flight from commonly accepted ways of thought
Into extreme states of mind
And what we get is innocuous World Cuisines
And World Music – just more consumer commodities

Often his protagonists are loners,
Who try to find ways to cope with the modern life and technology,
Or come into conflict with urban surroundings.
The natural environment, animate and inanimate, forms
A kind of philosophical, unifying ground
Refuge from the aggressions of modern life in an asylum
Expulsion from the liquid paradise of the womb and the fall into time

A wider ranging collectivity
Traditional colonialist vision
In stereotyped terms as the impenetrable and primitive other
Elaborate personal system of transcultural encounters and intersections,
The impasse posed by evocation of the past as nostalgic lamentation alone.
The urgent need to reconcile the past with the present
In order to provide for the possibility of a future

The eighteenth-century notion of the Primitive Other
Struggle to discover their identities as they bounce
From one geographical location to another
Going primitive in Paris encountering the Primitive
Other in ethnography and art
They regularly meet grim fates

The West fantasizes the Primitive Other as being
Closer to an original oneness denied to the modern Self
Simply renouncing Western culture and returning to their homelands
Characters wander numbly through modern metropolises,
Suffering from fevers
Extrasensory perception enables them to become acutely aware
Desperate for a sense of identity,
But despite their best efforts,
They remain on the fringes of society
Racial anxieties and desiring the Primitive Other

Knut Hamsun also won the Nobel
'The whisper of the blood and the pleading
Of the bone marrow'
His depreciation of modern, urban civilization
And the reigning civilization
Is slipping below the horizon
While we watch dining at
The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe

Quote - Language, unlike paint, does not simply become ‘beautiful’ once a style’s widely accepted – Jonathan Levin