Erich Auerbach. Writings on Dante.
Macula| N° d'inventaire | 26199 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 370 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782865891351 |
This is the largest volume ever published in French on the father of Italian poetry. Erich Auerbach had made Dante his favorite author. Between 1921 and his death, he devoted some fifteen essays to him, the most extensive of which, "Dante, Poet of the Earthly World," had a profound influence on Dante scholarship, particularly in Italy.
The book is organized around four poles:
- a formal analysis of the work of Dante, "inventor of the Italian language", in its relations with ancient tradition, with Provençal poetry and with the dolce stil nuovo;
- a historical reflection: we see the establishment in the author of the Divine Comedy of a new status of the individual, body and soul united, caught up in History, beyond the dogmatic symbolism and spiritualism of the period.
- a rereading of medieval texts based on the concept of figura. "Figurism" revolutionized the study of medieval symbolism and iconographic practices. Auerbach shows how Christianity reinterpreted biblical themes to restore them to the rank of premonitory images and anticipatory figures of Christian sacred history.
- a bold conception of a visionary Dante, speaking with the pressing authority of the ancient prophets, bearer of a particular revelation - and who is not far from hallucinating his own account of the afterlife - what he has "seen" of it - as the actual destiny of man.
This is the largest volume ever published in French on the father of Italian poetry. Erich Auerbach had made Dante his favorite author. Between 1921 and his death, he devoted some fifteen essays to him, the most extensive of which, "Dante, Poet of the Earthly World," had a profound influence on Dante scholarship, particularly in Italy.
The book is organized around four poles:
- a formal analysis of the work of Dante, "inventor of the Italian language", in its relations with ancient tradition, with Provençal poetry and with the dolce stil nuovo;
- a historical reflection: we see the establishment in the author of the Divine Comedy of a new status of the individual, body and soul united, caught up in History, beyond the dogmatic symbolism and spiritualism of the period.
- a rereading of medieval texts based on the concept of figura. "Figurism" revolutionized the study of medieval symbolism and iconographic practices. Auerbach shows how Christianity reinterpreted biblical themes to restore them to the rank of premonitory images and anticipatory figures of Christian sacred history.
- a bold conception of a visionary Dante, speaking with the pressing authority of the ancient prophets, bearer of a particular revelation - and who is not far from hallucinating his own account of the afterlife - what he has "seen" of it - as the actual destiny of man.