2011
Cairn
Gérald Stieg, « Approches interprétatives du poème Landschaft de Georg Trakl », Études Germaniques, ID : 10670/1.t6t55b
The transmission of the poem “Landschaft” (Landscape) by Georg Trakl, offers an almost ideal case for the combination of various interpretative methods. By using the anterior drafts, the final version that Trakl personally prepared for publishing, can be read as the result of a clearly intended process of refinement. Emerging from chaotic drafts, it is a poem determined by the intent to construct and to attain abstraction. This is particularly obvious in the case of the metamorphosis of the intertextual and intratextual motives (Hölderlin’s “Hälfte des Lebens” [Half of life], Rimbaud’s “Ophélie” [Ophelia], and Trakl’s “die junge Magd” [The young maid]).