Roaring 20s
Roaring 20s

Summary/Abstract: Somebody told me that Les annés folles are the world’s thirst for frenzy after a historical nightmare, a thirst caused not by the War, but rather by the Spanish flu. Maybe this is because the War itself had been brutally frantic, and the flu had toned down mankind, it had tamed it equally brutal. The modern man is a sedentary man, but he wants to live the city experience as if it were a boundless diaspora, because this is precisely what the city has always been, a place destined for domestic nomads, ever since the days of beardless Cain. The urban man, the citizen, leaves his home daily for a brief, few hundred meters expedition which nevertheless plunges into the core of foreignness and, the deeper the foreignness, the more intense the city.

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