Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments (Repost)
Friedrich Schlegel's Lucinde and the Fragments
Univ of Minnesota Press | June 1971 | ISBN-10: 0816606242 | 290 pages | PDF | 12.8 MB
Univ of Minnesota Press | June 1971 | ISBN-10: 0816606242 | 290 pages | PDF | 12.8 MB
For the last century and a half, Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829) has enjoyed a reputation for being the critical grey eminence behind the coming to power of the Romantic Movement. It was Schlegel, in his three series of aphoristic fragments (Lyceum, Athenaeum, and Ideas), who actually first defined and employed the word "romantic" in the present sense; and it was he who in a chaotic, fragmentary, and often mysterious but forceful manner first proclaimed the doctrine that was to usher in the modern age in literature. He too was among the first to put his new program into practice in the shape of his unfinished Lucinde,a work variously denounced as pornography and heralded as a forerunner of modern novelistic experimentation, and probably the most famous novel to come out of German Romanticism.