The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life.
Theodor AdornoKitsch parodies catharsis...It is in vain to try to draw the boundaries abstractly between aesthetic fiction and kitsch's emotional plunder. It is a poison admixed to all art; excising it is today one of art's despairing efforts.
Theodor Adorno