Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/germanica.2829>
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DOI: <
10.4000/germanica.2829>
Abstract
The article analyses how the narrative and semantic logic of this 1902 text makes the prediction an exemplary fantastic narrative. At the same time, it shows that this fantastic poetic, which Schnitzler rarely used, is here a technique allowing a singular approach to constant themes in his work (Sein/Schei — Spiel/Leben — Traum/Leben — Lüge/Wirklichkeit), and their connotation to I theme of the crepuscular soul (Dämmnerseelen ‘Cresspuscular News’ — is the title of the Collection where the prediction features). the use of fantastic highlights the symptoms of failure to adapt to the life of an individual without real vital force and uncomfortable in the social, mental and moral world, which, impressed by the vision of his death suggested by a magician, has been working methodically for ten years according to the pattern of that vision — depending on an inavoused morbide deliance — to realise it. The planned theme of predictive death, which a fictitious achievement — theatrical — cannot exorcate, refers to the theme of vision and speech, to the topic of the vacuum of art, since it is unable to create an authenticated universe.