Fine

“Fine” is ANSA’s word of the week, chosen as discussions about the end of life return to public attention. The word has a broad semantic range, linguists say, but listeners often hear in it the dark suggestion of death, disappearance and silence.

Its etymology, however, reveals greater richness and nuance than the idea of an ending alone. The article considers those dimensions through reflections associated with Jim Morrison, Federico Fellini, French philosopher Guy Debord, Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard and Ukrainian photographer Anna Golubovskaja.