The same twofoldness shows in how Deliria mentions real problems or places in the world of the reader. It is a strange picture, but not a Gothic one, when Kandre writes about dead people who play corona in the town of Keila (s.69). The reference to the sect who committed suicide in the djungle in Jonestown, however, is an example of a terrible real event that contributes to the Gothic feelings in Deliria (s.88). Seeing the world in a deeper sense means seeing the two sides of the world, both the wonderful and the things that we might find terrible, or Gothic.
Seeing the world more truly, like Deliria recommends, can be called an antidote to the meaninglessness and blindness that characterises the world in some postmodern works. One postmodern example is a poem from 1996 by the Swedish novelist Per Hagman (1968-), in which he writes sentences like "We are all one beat away from becoming elevatormusic " [written in English in the original], "inga ansikten att känna igen: bara oerhört ensamma lysande ögon som ruttnar i allt detta skval . " 5 ["no faces to recognize: just very lonely/glowing eyes which rots in all this blur."] Another example of this is William Gibson's (1948-) cyberpunk-novel Neuromancer (1984). In the beginning of this novel the polluted sky is depicted, not as a problem, but as background. This can be seen as a typically bland postmodern descripition of a negative side of the world. The polluted sky is here even compared with television, which makes the sky as real, or unreal, as television. The sentence reads: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." 6
In Deliria, Kandre critizises what I would call a postmodern world. Here we are told that man is not really made for the world in which we live today.
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