Artikel
Madness, love and literature : Fleur Jaeggy's I beati anni del castigo
Verfasst von:
Stemberger, Martina
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in:
Neophilologus : an international journal of modern and mediaeval language and literature
Dordrecht [u.a.]:
2012
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385 - 410 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Stemberger, Martina info |
| In: | Neophilologus : an international journal of modern and mediaeval language and literature |
| Jahr: | 2012 |
| Sprache: | Englisch, Mehrere Sprachen |
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| Fleur Jaeggy’s I beati anni del castigo (1989), a haunting history about madness, love and literature, and, at the same time, a sophisticated metaliterary text, raises many narratological—and also eminently philosophical—questions about authorship, about ‘ghostwriters’ (and writing ghosts), about impossible originality, about creation and/as imitation, about the status of the narrative subject, dismantling the fiction of a stable, coherent, responsible narrating ‘I’. Jaeggy’s text is a meditation on the complex relationship between literature and madness, on the latter’s language(s) and silence(s); the portrait of Jaeggy’s increasingly ‘mad’—and successively silenced—heroine (her madness being indeed a very literary, her silence a very telling one) might also be read as a poetological statement. Through the thoroughly (inter)textual character of Frédérique (whose last name means ‘story’, obviously enough accentuating her status as a disturbed and disturbing allegory of writing), Jaeggy also seems to reflect on her own ‘negative’ poetics, a poetics of asceticism and of anti-evidence, her conception of a writing process that, metaphorized as a ‘search for emptiness’, implicitly tends towards its auto-de(con)struction, towards the emptiness of the—post-scriptural, palimpsestic—white page. | |
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