Homelessness and Self-Disclosure : Evans Chan's "Minor" Cinema

Hungarian philosopher Georg Lukács described all literature as a response to the broad existential problems that confronted their authors. An important feature is the close connection between metaphysical and historical questions. On the one hand, all literary forms articulate a general vision of what it means to be human. On the other hand, this vision is elaborated in response to the author’s cultural and political context.

In Lukács’s view, the novel arises out of a fundamental problem: deep-rooted frameworks of orientation have disappeared, social structures have become mere conventions, and objective moral standards no longer command absolute conviction. He describes ...