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ESPES
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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 2
61 – 70
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A well-known novel Doctor Faustus written by Thomas Mann is situated in social and artistic environment of first half of the 20th century. It primarily concentrates on the particularity of the development of musical medium and inspires to rich reflections. The author of the paper tries to summarize, compare and closely specify opinions of Slovak music theorists, aestheticians and composers. One of first thinkers who introduced the nature of Mann’s novel as mirrored by its era was Ján Albrecht. Rudolf Brejka aimed to concentrate on description of the essence of artistic portrayal of presented problem. He drew attention to the fact that twelve-tone technique in this work of art is different from thinking and work of Schönberg. Vladimír Fulka dealt with a summarization of frequency of quotes and influence of Adorno’s texts on the diction of passages in the novel connected with problems of music. Vladimír Godár contributed to discussion about importance and contents of the novel by a detailed summary of all poetic inspirations which were used in the fictitious work of protagonist of the novel – composer Adrian Leverkün – and were really set to music by other composers. Last but not least, Juraj Hatrík presented stigmatisation of symbolic of evil in Alfred Schnittke’s cantata, directly related to Mann’s description of fictitious works. At the same time he pointed out connections of Thomas Mann’s Doctor Faustus in relation to another work of a German author – novel The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. In the last part the author thinks about cultural and social-political climate and dispositions of composed music in Slovakia thanks to which composition principles of Second Viennese School have not been fully expressed.
ESPES
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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 2
71 – 82
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Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus is a multi-layered work that elicits different, often conflicting and contradictory reflections, analysis and interpretation. In the novel are thematised many literary, social, historical, philosophical, musical theory and aesthetic problems. In this paper we focus on the questions of aesthetic potentiality modelled of literary event, to possible ways of perception and understanding of the literary text, its potential relationship to the real facts past and present. As a methodological basis we will use the philosophical and aesthetic concept of N. Goodman and by him explained the essence of making metaphors, "image as", exemplification and making of aesthetic semiosis. We will point out the difficulty of comparing literary text with the real reality (past and present), the problem of "mythical" and "demythical" potential of literary text in relation to the problem of art, artist, art, art perceiver.
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The article provides a comparative analysis of Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Tadeusz Rózewicz's story 'Death in Old Decorations'. The author argues that Rózewicz's story is a subtle and, in a way, 'negative' response to Mann's work, although it contains no direct allusions to it. A close reading of the text allows one to appreciate Rózewicz's subtle play with his great predecessor. The author's interpretative idea is based on the use of the Eros/Thanatos construction common for both texts, though differently functionalized in modernism and in postmodernism.
ESPES
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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 2
14 – 26
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Thomas Mann ́s novel “Doktor Faustus. Das Leben des deutschen Tonsetzers Adrian Leverkühn erzählt von seinem Freunde” (1947) is one of the most known literary works of the 20th century. The creation of this novel was closely tied with an encounter of Thomas Mann with a philosopher and musicologist Theodor W. Adorno in their American exile during the World War II. Thomas Mann ́s novel represents literary fiction of Adorno ́s theory of music and musical aesthetics, as found in the study Philosophie der neuen Musik (1949).
ESPES
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2014
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vol. 3
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issue 2
43 – 51
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The text deals with the novel Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann as a source of a music-literary poetics and myth-poetics. The archetypical symbol of the shadow is interpreted and amplified through the literary character of Adrian Leverkühn and broader imagination tendencies of art and society in the first half of the 20th century. For this goal have been used approaches of the deep hermeneutics and the analytical psychology. The motif of the Faust has strong potential to express not only an archetype of the shadow, but its present is significant in the time of transformation and changes.
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The article analyses three novels of the 20th-century (Thomas Mann: Doctor Faustus, Vladimir Nabokov: Luzhin's Defense and Jachym Topol: Night Job) on the basis of their engagement with the Faust myth on various levels. The problem is productive not only in relation to the understanding of the myth as 'an unceasing cosmic dynamics of the multi-layered contingencies and dependencies of all inter-world entities' that guarantees a transcendence of individual consciousness, but also the genre of the novel, which has an ambiguous relationship towards the myth - either it accepts the mythical imagination of the cosmic order, or it accepts the 'world order'. Readings of these three 20th-century novels bring opportunities for their contextualization within the world of myths from these two perspectives.
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