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<p>Most of the times the tragic mask of the madman has fascinated artistic and literary modernity, inspiring a series of painters and writers through its complex expresivity and semantics. Balancing between lie and truth, covering and revelating, through anarchy and virtuosity, the mask of the tragic clown reflects loneliness, the anxieties and demones of the modern individual in a world of violence and alienation. In Celan’s late poetry, the mask of the tragic clown describes another kafkian metamorphosis which the present paper analyses in a cultural, biographic and intertextual context.</p>
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Most of the times the tragic mask of the madman has fascinated artistic and literary modernity, inspiring a series of painters and writers through its complex expresivity and semantics. Balancing between lie and truth, covering and revelating, through anarchy and virtuosity, the mask of the tragic clown reflects loneliness, the anxieties and demones of the modern individual in a world of violence and alienation. In Celan’s late poetry, the mask of the tragic clown describes another kafkian metamorphosis which the present paper analyses in a cultural, biographic and intertextual context.

<italic>Allmählich clowngesichtig</italic>. Zu einer literarischen Maske des modernen Autors am Beispiel Paul Celans

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. Zu einer literarischen Maske des modernen Autors am Beispiel Paul Celans

Most of the times the tragic mask of the madman has fascinated artistic and literary modernity, inspiring a series of painters and writers through its complex...

Allmählich clowngesichtig. Zu einer literarischen Maske des modernen Autors am Beispiel Paul Celans

Publié en ligne: 05 août 2021

Pages: 51 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2020-0002

Mots clés
mask, clown, poetic identity, metamorphosis

© 2021 Laura Cheie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Allmählich clowngesichtig. Zu einer literarischen Maske des modernen Autors am Beispiel Paul Celans

Publié en ligne: 05 août 2021

Pages: 51 - 69

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gb-2020-0002

Mots clésmask, clown, poetic identity, metamorphosis

© 2021 Laura Cheie, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
mask, clown, poetic identity, metamorphosis