anomie

S’il a décidé de se dédier à la littérature c’est parce que l’anomie esthétique contemporaine permet à quelques allumés de trouver dans ces soubresauts écrits un sens.
If he decided to dedicate the literature because anomie contemporary aesthetic allows just switched to find in these upheavals written meaning.
Les symptômes de cette anomie sont les engouements pour les choses superficielles, pour les vêtements raffinés (Hamsun), signes d'une fascination détestable pour ce qui est extérieur, pour une forme de dépendance, elle-même signe d'un vide intérieur.
The symptoms of this anomie are crazes for superficial things, for sophisticated garb (Hamsun), signs of a detestable fascination for what is external, for a form of dependence, itself a sign of inner emptiness.
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