vendredi 12 août 2011

Toska

No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.

- V. Nabokov

1 commentaire:

  1. Quelle extraordinaire façon de décrire la souffrance. Tu as accès à tant d'écrivains, continue à partager ta culture avec nous.

    Céline

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