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De:	Guenter Rebing 
Enviado el:	sábado 28 de febrero de 1998 23:56
Para:	EJ List
Asunto:	Die Schere #4: Notes

Again the topic of images and the role of the author, here as the agent of
fate: his task is to bring forth that essential (and otherwise ineffable)
quality of a person which fate willed to express with this and no other
individuality. EJ tries to explain here why the images of certain literary
characters have gained a life of their own and have become part of our
collective imagination. Contrary to much of established literary criticism
EJ does not ascribe the vivid plausibility of characters like Iago or Don
Quijote solely to the genius of Shakespeare or Cervantes. Neither does he
explain it by the assumption that by being archetypes they touch the
collective unconscious, as C.G. Jung tried. Rather he puts forward the
concept of the "genius of the world", at this point without any further
explanation. Shakespeare and Cervantes discovered this genius, many others
missed it and their literary figures remained between the pages of their
books. 

Günter Rebing

The cuetion of archetypes seems to me fundamental in EJ writing. In fact,
i presume that he would be know by formulate the archetypes of this  TIME.
Again. Guenter has hit the mark.

best regards
roberto

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