Data di Pubblicazione:
2007
Citazione:
The Insane Poet on the Stage: Friedrich Hölderlin in Twentieth-Century Theatre / M. Castellari. ((Intervento presentato al XI. convegno Folly – XI International Conference of The British Comparative Literature Association tenutosi a London (UK) nel 2007.
Abstract:
Friedrich Hölderlin was depicted as the
insane poet par excellence in a number of plays and representations in the
20th century in Europe. On the stage, Hölderlin’s insanity almost turned into a
cliché, symbolizing the incompatibility of life and art, of personal commitment
and success, of idealism and reality. A good example is the play Hölderlin by
Peter Weiss (1971), where the poet is confronted with the characters of his
own writings, such as Empedocles, and with his contemporaries: a remarkable
intertextual nexus is achieved, giving rise to multiple levels of expression and
possible interpretations of folly, up to its very denegation. My contribution
aims to describe and compare the major examples of this literary, theatrical
and cultural trend, setting it into the general frame of the 20th century
reflection on the boundaries between health and disease, the role of the
intellectual inside the community and the tragic dimension of a poetry
rejecting compromise.
Tipologia IRIS:
14 - Intervento a convegno non pubblicato
Keywords:
Friedrich Hölderlin ; insanity ;
Peter Weiss ; German theatre
Elenco autori:
M. Castellari
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