chronosome
chronosome n (greek khronos, time + greek soma, body; cf. chromosome) ð a unit of historical heredity, in contrast with a chromosome as a unit of biological heredity; a mental code of a historical period that is transmitted to next generations through styles, traditions and unconscious influences (“cultural air”).
the chronosomes of the early 20th c. avant-garde have reached the generation of the 1960s and shaped its political views and artistic styles.
nabokov’s novel “invitation to a beheading” bears many kafka’s chronosomes, even if the author claims to have never read kafka.
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