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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal : Poets and the Language of Life
author
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Del Caro, Adrian.
publisher
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Louisiana State University Press
isbn10 | asin
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0807117862
print isbn13
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9780807117866
ebook isbn13
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9780585318400
language
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English
subject
Hofmannsthal, Hugo von,--1874-1929--Criticism and interpretation.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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PT2617.O47Z7356 1993eb
ddc
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831/.912
subject
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Hofmannsthal, Hugo von,--1874-1929--Criticism and interpretation.
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Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
Poets and the Language of Life
Adrian Del Caro
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Copyright 1993 by Louisiana State University Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Del Caro, Adrian, 1952 Hugo von Hofmannsthal: poets and the language of life / Adrian Del Caro p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8071-1786-2 (alk. paper) 1. Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 18741929Criticism and interpretation. I. Title. PT2617.O47Z7356 1993 92-22939 831'.912dc20 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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Contents
Preface
ix
1. Lebensphilosophie
1
2. Words
22
3. Actions
46
4. Preexistence
54
5. Threshold
74
6. Transformation
91
7. Time
114
8. Inscription
138
Bibliography
145
Index
149
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Preface
This Hofmannsthal is an introduction to the poetry, and treats on a detailed basis the poems published during the 1890s and those few published later. My writing here is not "for" scholars of German, but certainly not "against" my colleagues either. Those who take an interest in the fin de sicle, in the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal writings of the 1870s and 1880s, and those for whom poetry is a living concept will find in my treatment of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's poetic work a threshold to the language of life, as suggested in my subtitle.
It was not my goal to offer interpretations of Hofmannsthal's poems, and where this appears to be the case, the reader should consider that each text is approached within the context of major dimensions of the early Hofmannsthal poetic. I attempted to let the poems speak for themselves, and this required a good deal of translation, all of it my own. But for the same reason that I eschew "total interpretations," I have also avoided total translation. It is one thing to try to reenact a poem by capturing as much of its lyricality as possible, but quite another thing to penetrate beyond the poetic devices of a poem in order to awaken its soul. Companion volumes should be consulted by readers wishing to see "polished" translations of Hofmannsthal's poems (e.g., Michael Hamburger's 1961 edition in the Bollingen Series), or a comprehensive treatment of Hofmannsthal's work beyond poetry and into drama (e.g., Benjamin Bennett's 1988 Hugo von Hofmannsthal).
I wish to thank my colleague Donald G. Daviau, editor of Modern Austrian Literature, for encouraging my interest in Hofmannsthal and certain other Austrian writers during the last decade. I am also grateful to the College of Arts and Sciences of Louisiana State University for a Manship Fellowship enabling me to complete this book.
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1 Lebensphilosophie
Basic to my understanding of Lebensphilosophie, or the philosophy of life, is presence of life, on the one hand, and the expression of that presence on the other hand. However poignant or keen one's experience of life may become, there are intervals of inertia between realization and apprehension, between apprehension and the sharing of presence through language. Language here means articulation. The practitioners of the philosophy of life are expressive individuals whose extraordinary capacity for presenting life, as manifestation, induces them to articulate that presence in language. The most skillful and revered articulators of presence are poets, but only insofar as the poet is indeed a presence and has sufficient presence to sharearticulators per se are not of necessity, poets.
The translation of presence into language is hindered by the intervals of inertia, and this inertia can be described as resulting from a collision between dynamic and static, between living and dying. However, the collision between presence and articulation does not result in a complete standstill, but in a falling off or slowing of activity, like abatement. For this reason, however alive and vibrant with presence the vision of the poet was originally, translated into the poet's work it begins immediately to die. Language has a lethal effect on all things. Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that "every word is a prejudice" ("jedes Wort ist ein Vorurteil"), but I maintain that every word is a death sentence (
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