Ingeborg Bachmann: Undine geht

Wie die anderen Erzählungen des Bandes "Das dreißigste Jahr" handelt dieser zwischen Lyrik und Prosa changierende Monolog - "Undine geht" - von Sprache und Gewalt, von existentieller Wahrheit des Individuums und Anpassung an die gesellschaftliche Norm, von der quälenden Last der Erinnerung und der Freiheit zur Rebellion. Wohl erstmals in ihrem Werk stellt Bachmann hier die Frage nach der Möglichkeit der Kommunikation zwischen Mann und Frau von jenem dezidiert weiblichen Standpunkt aus, der die späte Prosa ihres "Todesarten"- Zyklus kennzeichnen wird. Nicht zuletzt setzt der Text eine poetologische Reflexion fort, die implizit in Gedichten und Erzählungen, explizit in Essays und Vorlesungen, um die Möglichkeit einer neuen, radikal anderen, nicht entfremdeten Sprache kreist

Chapter Claudio Magris e i miti della Grande Austria

The vast extension of the Habsburg Empire, as well as its heterogeneous cultural and linguistic composition, were both the causes of its richness and demise. This gave way to a debate on the specific traits of Austrian literature, which in 1963 was enriched by Claudio Magris’ degree thesis, published under the title Il mito absburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna. Starting from the assumptions of a Lukacian-style historicist critique, the book ended up offering a fascinating evocation of the cultural world of great Austria. Together with his subsequent Germanic and non-fiction works (Lontano da dove, L’anello di Clarisse, Danubio), this debut book forms a "Central European tetralogy"

Ransmayr postmoderno?

This essay shows that a hasty and superficial reading of Ransmayr’s works as postmodern may be contradicted by a careful probing into his own originsRiflessione critica sull'opera dell'autore tedesco in rapporto alla definizione, controversa e dibattuta, di postmoderno

Chapter Claudio Magris e i miti della Grande Austria

The vast extension of the Habsburg Empire, as well as its heterogeneous cultural and linguistic composition, were both the causes of its richness and demise. This gave way to a debate on the specific traits of Austrian literature, which in 1963 was enriched by Claudio Magris’ degree thesis, published under the title Il mito absburgico nella letteratura austriaca moderna. Starting from the assumptions of a Lukacian-style historicist critique, the book ended up offering a fascinating evocation of the cultural world of great Austria. Together with his subsequent Germanic and non-fiction works (Lontano da dove, L’anello di Clarisse, Danubio), this debut book forms a "Central European tetralogy"

Hermann Hesse - Stefan Zweig. Due cittadini del mondo e umanisti

La miscellanea indaga il rapporto tra Stefan Zweig da diversi punti di vista e offre anche un'analisi contrastiva di alcune delle loro oper