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PILLARS OF THE NATIONAL POETRY: GÉRARD DE NERVAL’S VOICE IN THE ROMANTIC DEBATE ON THE ORIGINS OF FRENCH LITERATURE

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Kowalska M.

Świat Tekstów. Rocznik Słupski

2020

vol. 18

19-31

The article discusses the Gérard de Nerval’s voice in the debate on the sources and origins of French national literature. The main subjects of analysis are two of his articles from 1830, the prefaces to choice of poems of Ronsard, Du Bellay, Baïf, Belleau, Du Bartas, Chassignet, Desportes, and Régnier, as well as to selection from German poetry. In the light of the dispute in the second half of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century over the greater importance of trouvères or troubadours as the fathers of national literature, Nerval’s position is less rigid and lacking pathos. He recalls the medieval noble and folk literature, one which is the product of chivalric culture unifying many groups and the other, “Gallic” which does not include a large part of the nation but which goes deeper into it and is more emotional in its expression. In the second type he mentions less popular occasional genres, for instance farces, fabliaux, facetiae and puts them as the examples of literature “from the heart of France”, “capable to inspire” and “to supply great ideas”. This type encompasses the sacred and profane, the multilingual, the seriousness of spiritual themes along with pure comedy. All these qualities according to Nerval reflect the French spirit and may be the sources of revival for true French romantic poetry.

Artykuł przedstawia głos Gérarda de Nervala w dyskusji o źródłach i początkach francuskiej literatury narodowej. Przedmiotem analizy są dwa artykuły z 1830 r., wstępy do Choix des poésies de Ronsard, Du Bellay, Baïf, Belleau, Du Bartas, Chassignet, Desportes, Régnier oraz Poésies allemandes. W kontekście sporu o wyższość truwerów lub trubadurów jako „ojców współczesnej literatury” i „wychowawców narodu”, który toczył się ostatnich dziesięcioleciach XVIII i na początku XIX wieku, stanowisko Nervala jawi się jako budujące mosty między zwaśnionymi stronami, oryginalne i wyzbyte niepotrzebnego patosu. Nerval przypomina, że w średniowiecznej literaturze francuskiej można dostrzec dwa prądy: „rycerski”, na który składają się m.in. powieści, poematy alegoryczne, ballady, oraz „galijski”, który przejawia się np. w misteriach, moralitetach, farsach i facecjach. Taka literatura, łącząca sacrum i profanum, różne języki, śmiech z nauką, oddaje zdaniem Nervala ducha narodu i w niej tkwią źródła odrodzenia francuskiej poezji.

Symboliczne wcielenia Oskara Kokoschki - Tristan

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Długosz M.

Roczniki Humanistyczne

2013

vol. 61

issue 4: Historia Sztuki

159-203

From the very beginning of his artistic career Oskar Kokoschka systematically used historical, literary and mythological persons, whose figures, being recognizable in culture, facilitated the expression of his own psychological states and life experiences. The young painter, familiar with the classic works of literature, was also fascinated by music. One of his most vivid musical memories mentioned in an interview after more than half a century, was connected with his visits at the Vienna opera horse where he hare heard concerts directed by Gustav Mahler. A an especially enduring memory was that of the performance of R. Wagner’s drama Tristan und Isolde. From that time on the story of the mythical couple of lovers dominated the artist’s imagination, and after his meeting with Gustav's widow, Alma Mahler, he was able to assume a personified figure involving all the three people. As a result Kokoschka and Alma's love affair was supposed to develop according to the historical and mythical scenario of the medieval, and originally Celtic, saga. The artist first played the role of a life-guardsman seeking the favor of the patron of the Vienna cultural elite, and also seeking the hand of the inaccessible „queen” left by the dead director, „the old king”. Having won her acceptance the painter was able to be in her good graces for some time as her lover. However, a tragic turnabout, and at the same time the end of the relation, was inevitably inscribed in the process, in which the „young pretender” Kokoschka, having entered the role of the king, next had to give way to the next candidate. Stages of this symbolic process can be seen in Kokoschka’s letters as well as in his literary and visual works from the period of his relationship with Alma Mahler in the years 1912-1915, when one compares the facts from the protagonists’ lives with, among others, the medieval versions of the Tristan legend and its version composed by Wagner.

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PILLARS OF THE NATIONAL POETRY: GÉRARD DE NERVAL’S VOICE IN THE ROMANTIC DEBATE ON THE ORIGINS OF FRENCH LITERATURE

Symboliczne wcielenia Oskara Kokoschki - Tristan