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02.12.2010

5. Flaubert-Lecture: Vortrag Jacques Neefs "Salammbô: Love, Gods, Wars, a modern epic prose" und Buchvorstellung

  • Ort: München
  • Beginn: 09.12.10
  • Disziplinen: Literaturwissenschaft
  • Sprachen: Französisch

Vortrag von Jacques Neefs (Johns Hopkins University)

 

Salammbô: Love, Gods, Wars, a modern epic prose

 

Salammbô, next to La Tentation de saint Antoine, is one of Flaubert’s books which even today is shrouded in strangeness. Portraying a very short and brutal episode of ancient history, the text radically displaces the art of narrative prose : It is « the real epic narration of modern times », writes Banville. Forging skillfully a story of brutish love, a broad, archaic and violent, mythological plot, and a martial political fight, Flaubert’s work analizes the limitless human capacity of violence. This unique narrative prose creates an uproar which gives voice to humankind’s miserable destiny – a destiny of war and sacrificial obsession, which reveals a fundamental conjunction between desire and death. The book thus invents a new form of beauty – violent and spectacular. This form of beauty was to have a great future also in other arts.

 

anschließend Buchvorstellung

 

Arsen bis Zucker. Flaubert-Wörterbuch. Hg. Barbara Vinken und Cornelia Wild. Berlin: Merve 2010.

 

Donnerstag, 9.12.2010, 18.00 Uhr c.t.

Center for Advanced Studies, Seestr. 13

 

Voranmeldung unter info@cas.lmu.de oder 089/2180-72080

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Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher