[Juenger-list] DIE SCHERE #62: Notes 3 & 4

[rcalvom@ctv.es rcalvom@ctv.es]

> [3] Reflecting in these passages on the concept of the =BBinvisible=AB h=
e looks at 
> the role of the invisible as associated with mountains and takes his exa=
mples 
> from German Romantic literature. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann's tale =BB=
Die 
> Bergwerke zu Falun=AB was published 1819 in his collection =BBDie Serapi=
onsbr=FCder=AB. 
> Compared to the classic simplicity of Johann Peter Hebel's masterful tal=
e 
> =BBUnverhofftes Wiedersehen=AB Hoffmann's rendering of the same story se=
ems somewhat 
> overblown and too deliberately romantic to me. I am amazed that the toug=
hminded 
> author of =BBIn Stahlgewittern=AB or =BBDer Arbeiter=AB is so palpably f=
ascinated by it. 


I think its no so strange. Der Arbeiter have a quantum of 
romanticism - though cooled in the steeled armor and freezed 
temperatures of its structure and language; this romanticism is 
also a condiment of other titanical simplificated aesthetics - for 
example, that of Marinetti. I remember also ( don=B4t know exactly 
where, in a novel, or may be in his diaries) Ej himself recalling his 
young romantic conceptions and feelings.

Best regards
Roberto