| Popis: |
“A spectre is haunting Europe”. It may be so, but it is not the spectre of Communism which Marx and Engels refer to at the beginning of the Manifesto. After the fall of the Berlin wall and the events that followed, it is no longer possible to believe that Communism is still a menace; at least not in Europe and western countries. The phantom evoked by this metaphor actually has nothing to do with the class struggle; it has to do instead with inequity or the intergenerational conflict: the generation question. Nevertheless, the metaphor keeps its literary effectiveness unchanged in this case also. First of all, the image of the spectre makes it clear that the intergenerational conflict is not an imminent prospect, although there are all the premises for it to become reality in the near future. Furthermore, by evoking something indefinite and changeable, this image makes it possible to clarify that the intergenerational conflict does not have the same characteristics everywhere, but varies according to the political context. |
