Good Grief

The poetry of these children is born from the fact that we find in them all the problems, all the sufferings of the adults, who remain offstage. These children affect us because in a certain sense they are monsters: they are the monstrous infantile reductions of the all the neuroses of a modern citizen of the industrial civilisation

Umberto Eco writing about Peanuts by Charles M Schulz.

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