Hutchinson, B. (2008) “Ici commence l’indicible”. Hans Blumenbergs Überlegungen zur Unmöglichkeit des Beginnens beim späten Rilke. Etudes germaniques, 63 (1). pp. 115-129. ISSN 0014-2115.
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Abstract
This essay investigates the concept of ‘beginnings’ in Rilke’s poetry, through a reading of a number of published and unpublished texts by Hans Blumenberg (held in Marbach). Blumenberg’s brief article on an – almost – empty notebook of Rilke’s, containing only the words ‘Ici commence l’indicible’, can be seen as part of a broader aesthetics of negation. The paradox of saying the unsayable can be understood within the context of Blumenberg’s concept of ‘absolute metaphors’: how do Rilke’s metaphorical and syntactical techniques for ‘saying the unsayable’ – for expressing moments of beginning – correspond to Blumenberg’s insistence on the impossibility of expressing true beginning?
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PT Germanic literature |
| Divisions: | Faculties > Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages Faculties > Humanities > School of European Culture and Languages > German |
| Depositing User: | Ben Hutchinson |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2008 09:01 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2012 10:35 |
| Resource URI: | http://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/3189 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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