“Suppose
then that you began with the proposition that boredom was a kind of
pain caused by unused powers, the pain of wasted possibilities or
talents, and was accompanied by expectations of the optimun utilization
of capacities. […] Modern French literature is especially preoccupied
with the theme of boredom. Stendhal mentioned it on every page, Flaubert
devoted books to it, and Baudelaire was its chief poet. What is the
reason for this peculiar French sensitivity? Can it be because the
‘ancien régime’, fearing another Fronde, created a court that emptied
the provinces of talent?”
Saul Bellow (1915-2005). Humboldt's Gift (1975). London: Penguin Books, 2008, p. 201
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