[lit-ideas] Ein Brunnen singt
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:32:13 EDT
1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 449/4 Trakl himself, whose cold,
undelighting, unhuman speech, with its small, select and poisoned vocabulary,
is like
no other in German.
1993 E. B. WILLIAMS Mirror & Mind II. viii. 279 Though Trakl's early verse
may fancifully valorize a presignificative dimension of melos, his poetic
explorations never..proceed ‘primarily in the mind space anterior to
language.’
The Life and Times of Georg Trakl
C. Bruce. I accept your apologies profusely. And it's a pleasure to have
you back in the list. Do see if you can change that back to "C. Bruce" -- or
not.
GEORG TRAKL
Ficker also brought Trakl to the attention of Ludwig Wittgenstein, who
anonymously provided him with a sizable stipend so that he could concentrate
on his writing.
On the outbreak of World War I, Trakl was sent as a medical official to
attend to soldiers in Galicia (comprising portions of modern-day Ukraine and
Poland). Trakl suffered frequent bouts of depression[citation needed],
exacerbated by the horror of caring for severely wounded soldiers. During one
such incident in Gródek, Trakl had to steward the recovery of some ninety
soldiers wounded in the fierce campaign against the Russians. He tried to
shoot himself from the strain, but his comrades prevented him. Hospitalized in
Kraków and placed under close observation, Trakl lapsed into deeper
depression and wrote to Ficker for advice. Ficker convinced him to contact
Wittgenstein. Upon receiving Trakl's note, Wittgenstein went to the hospital,
but
found that Trakl had committed suicide from an overdose of cocaine three
days before
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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