“He Couldn’t Tell the Difference between The Merry Widow and Tristan and Isolde”: Kafka’s Anti-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music

The Polish Journal of Aesthetics

Ido Lewit¹ 

[1] Yale University;

关键词: richardwagner;    franzkafka;    philosophyofmusic;    transcendence;    acousmaticsound;    silence;   

DOI  :  10.19205/53.19.6

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Thisessay exposes an anti-Wagnerian philosophy of music in Franz Kafka’s “Researches of a Dog” and “The Silence of the Sirens.” Themes of music, sound, and silence are overwhelminglypowerfulinthese storiesandcannotbedivorcedfromcorporealandvisual aspects. These aspects are articulated in the selected texts in a manner that stands in stark opposition to Richard Wagner’s philosophy of music as presented in the composer’s seminal 1870 “Beethoven” essay.

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