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Ingeborg Bachmann e l'Italia
No full textIn the exhaustive search for a language able to express the most profound reality, one may be likened to a ‘nomad’ in search of a home. Bachmann shares with other 20 th c. Austrian writers the plight of an emigrant in search of a country, for the Glorious Austria had long since passed, and that which remained suffered from a constant identity crisis.
My study focuses on the significance and influence that Italy had on the writer’s work. Specifically, I’ll examine her Was ich in Rom sah und hörte, an essay that describes Rome shorn of its conventional associations, and then reconstructed in the light of new associations that conform to Bachmann’s personal outlook. This poet’s Italy ranges far beyond the cliché traditionally used to describe it. Instead, the complexity of her characterization is revealed in two ways: spirituality in poetry and utopia in her Roman essays.
Bachmann uses these forms to express herself. On the one hand, she believed that an author was limited in their ability to speak and, thus, write about a foreign country. Yet, as a foreigner bound sentimentally to her host country, she formed part of a dynamic that eluded precise definition
Baumsymbole in Adalbert Stifters Erzaehlungen
No full textDer Baum als tragendes Strukturelement in einigen Erzaehlungen Stifters Vor allem in Brigitta und der Beschriebene Taennlin
Il sottotenente Gustl e La signorina Else
No full textA. Schnitzler schuf mit seinen beiden Werken, Leutnant Gustl und Fräulein Else ein einzigartiges Portrait der untergehenden Habsburgermonarchie. Im Leutnant Gustl wie in Fräulein Else verarbeitet er literarisch den überholten Ehrenkodex, den immer mehr aufkeimenden Antisemitismus , die Langeweile des Einzelnen, die in Aggressivität mündet sowie die Ich-losigkeit des modernen Menschen, der sich in dieser „Scheinwelt“ nicht mehr zurechtfindet, um nur einige Thematiken zu nennen. Um diese nun dem Leser nahezubringen wendet Schnitzler eine besondere stilistische Form an und zwar die des Inneren Monologs, der es erlaubt in die Seele seiner Figuren zu blicken
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