It is not by chance that Mitchievici dwells on the works the Romanian-French writer Emil Cioran, who tried to build an image of a secluded writer, close to anonymity, avoiding to cultivate both the bohemian and the dandy style, by adopting a lifestyle shaped by the cult of work and discipline, in the spirit of the Protestant ethics theorized by Max Weber. Câteva reflecții despre ratare” (2022), which explores one of the favorite themes of decadent literature and art (failure), I aim to highlight the most relevant existential postures in a writer’s life: the anti-bourgeois aristocratic posture (the dandy) and the proletarian-democratic posture (the bohemian). By starting from Angelo Mitchievici’s recent book, “Farmecul vieților distruse. This study analyses the relationship between failure and success from two perspectives: creative psychology and sociology of creation. Failure, succes, boem, dandy, burgeoisie, protestant ethics, capitalism Abstract
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