Vienna House (2016)

Hallmark of the period's fashions: to intimate a body that never knows full nakedness. [B3,1] - Benjamin, Arcades
 

            
“The breadth of the ground-plan thus forced upon the work and the length of the road which the hero must travel in his own soul before he discovers himself as a hero are at variance with the slenderness of construction which the dramatic form demands, and brings it closer to the epic forms; and the polemical emphasis on heroism (even in abstract tragedy) leads, of necessity, to an excess of purely lyrical lyricism.” 1

        “Distance, losing its objective reality, is turned into a darkly beautiful ornament.” 2

1 Lukács, The Theory of the Novel 44

2 Lukács, The Theory of the Novel 102