Isabel, Radio Ragazza, Adele Bertei.

“Discussing the decline of Latin civilization, I described artistic culture as rising like a secretion to the surface of a people, at first a symptom of plethora, the superabundance of health, then immediately hardening, calcifying, opposing any true contact of the mind with nature, concealing beneath the persistent appearance of life, the diminution of life, forming a rind in which the hindered spirit languishes, withers and dies. Finally, carrying my notion to its conclusion, I said that culture, born of life, ultimately kills life.”

— The Immoralist, Andre Gide

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BOMB 7/Fall 1983