Temple of the Scapegoat: Opera Stories (ePub)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Revolving around the opera, these tales are an archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence (W. G. Sebald)
Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge's Temple of the...
Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge's Temple of the...
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Revolving around the opera, these tales are an archaeological excavation of the slag-heaps of our collective existence (W. G. Sebald)
Combining fact and fiction, each of the one hundred and two tales of Alexander Kluge's Temple of the Scapegoat (dotted with photos of famous operas and their stars) compresses a lifetime of feeling and thought: Kluge is deeply engaged with the opera and an inventive wellspring of narrative notions. The titles of his stories suggest his many turns of mind: Total Commitment, Freedom, Reality Outrivals Theater, The Correct Slowing-Down at the Transitional Point Between Terror and an Inkling of Freedom, A Crucial Character (Among Persons None of Whom Are Who They Think They Are), and Deadly Vocal Power vs. Generosity in Opera. An opera, Kluge says, is a blast furnace of the soul, telling of the great singer Leonard Warren who died onstage, having literally sung his heart out. Kluge introduces a Tibetan scholar who realizes that opera is about comprehension and passion. The two never go together. Passion overwhelms comprehension. Comprehension kills passion. This appears to be the essence of all operas, says Huang Tse-we. He also comes to understand that female roles face the harshest fates: Compared to the mass of soprano victims (out of 86,000 operas, 64,000 end with the death of the soprano), the sacrifice of tenors is small (out of 86,000 operas 1,143 tenors are a write-off).
Autoren-Porträt von Alexander Kluge
Alexander Kluge, born in Germany in 1932, is a world-famous author and filmmaker (his twenty-three films include Yesterday Girl, The Female Patriot, The Candidate), a lawyer, and a media magnate. He has won Germany's highest literary award, the Georg Büchner Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alexander Kluge
- 2018, 288 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: Donna Stonecipher, Isabel Cole
- Verlag: New Directions
- ISBN-10: 0811227499
- ISBN-13: 9780811227490
- Erscheinungsdatum: 23.01.2018
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