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
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Publiziert von: Kai Nonnenmacher