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Figures tragiques du savoir

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Hélène Vial
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Anne de Cremoux

Troisième Partie. Personnages tragiques en proie aux dangers du savoir, d’écritures antiques en variations modernes et contemporaines

Cassandra, between knowledge and suffering1

Sandra Pereira Vinagre
Traduttore: Celina Agostinho e Hugo Mendes Amaral

Abstract

Since the myth is not a reality petrified in time, the plasticity that characterizes it allows it to be reused to defend or criticize new values. This article aims to demonstrate the reconfiguration of Cassandra’s myth in the play Kassandra written by Hans Schwarz. Via an equivalence between the mythical time and the current time, one finds a Cassandra defending and reproducing values that are absolutely essential for the Third Reich and its ideological framework, preserving the constant close relation between the glory of knowledge and the disaster the one who possesses it is doomed to.

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Estratto del testo

Apollon, you, of Troy – it happens to you
As you demanded ! I bring you, homeland,
The dead victim ! Then I’m free2 !

Oedipus, Antigone, Prometheus, Cassandra… these are much more than just the names of mythical characters. In fact, their stories are not frozen in a specific time ; rather, they surpass its boundaries. And it is the characteristic plasticity of myths that allows a story first told or staged in the fifth century BC to be revisited, although with a distinct resonance, in later centuries. Thus, every time a novelist, playwright, painter, sculptor or filmmaker borrows a myth, the result is a new reading of that same narrative, since it was written in a different time, which attempts to answer different questions.

Oedipus, for example, is presented as a passive figure by Homer, whereas in Oedipus the King by Sophocles he is the one who takes the initiative, thus focusing the character on the question of knowledge. Twenty years later, the same tragedian uses again the figure o...

Autore

Celina Agostinho (Traduttore)
Hugo Mendes Amaral (Traduttore)

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