Introduction

The complex relationship between "poetry and painting" in Western art history was discussed, and it was pointed out that poetry and painting, as representational media, follow different rules when presenting things or reality. Poetry breaks through the limitations of time and space through implicit language, expressing psychology and abstract concepts; However, painting relies on visual intuitiveness and is limited by momentary solidification. In the late 20th century, cultural scholars proposed the topic of "image turn", believing that visual technology is controlling people's imagination of culture, and images are constantly encroaching on the realm of writing. This change had already begun to emerge in the early 20th century.

The Second Language Crisis and Essayism

At the beginning of the 20th century, Western society experienced a language crisis, and Hofmannsthal described the dilemma of language being unable to express the truth of things and individual feelings in "Chandos to Bacon". Wittgenstein pointed out in "Tractatus Logico Philosophicus" that everyday language cannot directly understand the logic of language, and it is necessary to search for the logical images behind reality. Modern art and literature have begun to focus on the state of existence of things themselves, while modernist literature enhances the experimental nature of texts, viewing works as metaphorical experimental fields. Muzier's essayist style work 'People Without Personality' breaks the overall worldview and allows characters to determine their own identity through real-life experiments. He emphasizes the guiding power of plot, constructs the plot from real details, visualizes and geometrizes thinking consciousness, presents different semantic effects through semiotic games, and reflects new language visions.

Collaborative Perception between Three Image Collections and Perspective Perspective Perspective

Robert Muzier's "Living Works" is a collection of essays, critiques, speeches, and short stories from 1920 to 1929, personally selected and published by him. These works take inconspicuous things or events as objects, and outline the author's ideological contours through puzzle like narratives. The creative background is Europe between World War I and World War II, where the trauma of war, industrial prosperity, urban explosions, and influx of immigrants have led to social anxiety. In the late period of the Austro Hungarian Empire, there was a significant transformation in the way residents lived and produced, and the demands for democratization and constitutional monarchy were widespread. The traditional elite class attempted to contain this transformation, leading to social division. After the disintegration of the Austro Hungarian Empire in 1918, Austria and Germany entered a period of transition in their national power systems. The "Living Legacy" consists of four parts: "Image Collection", "Unfriendly Observations", "Little Stories", and "Blackbird". The "Image Collection" is the first collection of works, consisting of 14 scenes that form a multidimensional whole, showcasing 14 tiny life "silhouettes" that reflect the social survival and communication models of different individuals or groups. The writing of this image unit structure is a confirmation of its essay theory, avoiding the direct narrative paradigm and reconstructing order in fragmented fragments. Imagery writing establishes a new dimension of imagination in fictional contexts, transforming straightforward descriptions into analogical forms and using simple images for metaphor. The silhouettes in the "Image Collection" are formed around special images that are detached from personalized identities, and the protagonists are ordinary category names: men, women, soldiers, girls, and various animals. These unnamed scenes create non subject spaces, and readers experience them through perspective following the camera lens, pointing towards objective psychological images. Taking 'Fly Paper' as an example, the story depicts the scene of a fly being bound and struggling to death. Fly paper metaphorically represents the real battlefield, and flies become symbols of soldiers, showcasing the passive and tragic fate that war brings to people.

Four "slow motion" silhouettes and the world puzzle

Robert Muzier's "Imagery Collection" uses 14 miniature stories to magnify life details in the form of silhouettes, showcasing a slow motion movie like effect. Muzier analyzed the magic of magnifying viewing in his article "Telescope", making the audience observe life as if swimming underwater. These stories focus on three themes: "world form," "self state," and "treatment of others.

Five concluding remarks

The Image Collection constructs a cycle from the macro world to individual experience and then to the essence of the macro world through three themes: "world form," "self state," and "treating others. The work adopts non-traditional narrative methods, interweaving individuals with historical development, breaking the boundaries of time and space, and integrating micro perspectives with macro changes. In the book, the de subjectification of "metaphorical" images such as characters and animals is used to outline the fragments of the world and construct the overall reality. These fragments are reflective observations of reality, like postcards of ideas, guiding readers to experience the space of events and engage in observation, analogy, and reflection. In the era of relativism, Muzier used a unique writing game to endow ideas with spatial image structures and provide a new perspective of perception.