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oai:doaj.org/article:678c3bce90784f78a1f405ff2db743db

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10.33910/2687-1262-2019-1-2-141-155

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The ideal of Friedrich Gundolf and his myth about Stefan George. Reflections on the book. Part 2. e-mail:

Abstract

The article analyses the key book of the German philologist and culturologist Friedrich Gundolf, dedicated to the work of the outstanding German poet of the early twentieth century — Stefan Gheorghe. It is shown that during the analysis of the poetic heritage of Gheorghe Gundolf creates not so much the concept of the poet’s creative path, but the myth about the ideal poet. The essence of poetry, according to Gundolph, lies in its ability to transform the language of the era, and, ultimately, the epoch itself. This is possible due to the fact that poetry turns out to be a way of creating symbols that express the central spiritual problems of a nation experiencing its history at one time or another. Gundolf tried to show that Georghe’s work was a turning point in the history of Germany and even Europe, which, by the end of the 11st century, was the result of the crisis, which was reflected in the loss of the people’s involvement in the eternal basis of their existence — the creative desire for self-discovery of the inherent ideal of the people. Gheorghe, according to Gundolf, is an example of the miraculous transformation of his own and popular being, a poet possessing the gift of recreating in his creative life the whole path of the people’s spirit, the way of his return to his ideal. Gundolph shows the whole path, the milestones of which are the key poetic collections of Georghe. The real creative path of Georghe turned out to be somewhat more difficult than he is represented by Gundolf. The influence of George, which seemed extremely significant at the beginning of the twentieth century, almost completely disappeared by the middle of the century, even in Germany. Aristocratic myths about folk ideals were perceived as an essential component of National Socialist ideology and aesthetics. The article shows that this contradictory and complex character of the history of the poetic influence of George and his circle Gundolph did not see or explain. However, the ideal of Gundolph cannot but be respected, because it possesses such traits as universalism and the greatness of the task of transforming the European spirit, features that hardly possessed similar projects of philological and even philosophical scale.

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