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Boris Vian ou Le Schmürz

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Description

In Les Bâtisseurs d’Empire ou le Schmürz (The Empire Builders or The Schmürz, 1959), the Schmürz is the only figure that never leaves. A silent, bandaged presence, almost reduced to a “thing,” he is repeatedly beaten by a family who otherwise refuses to acknowledge him. As they retreat upward into smaller and smaller spaces, attempting to escape an undefined threat, they symbolically rise while diminishing. The Schmürz remains — the scapegoat, the repressed truth, the burden they attempt to expel but cannot destroy. His suffering, often confined to parentheses in the text, becomes ritualized and structural. The Schmürz embodies what a system suppresses in order to sustain itself: guilt, fear, memory, and the cost of its own ascent.

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collage

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illustration

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borisvian

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schmürz

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theatre

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Contract: KT1RJ6...xton
Token ID: 877553

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