Bruno Franks Cervantes. Spiele des Schicksals: wechselnde Geschicke einer exemplarischen Biografie
SERRA, VALENTINA
2016-01-01
Abstract
The aim of the present paper is to explore the specific context of exile in which Bruno Frank’s fictional biography of Cervantes was writ ten, and to highlight its (perhaps still relevant) message for the modern-day reader. Frank published Cervantes. Ein Roman in 1934, but it is now an almost totally forgotten work. Although it was just one of many historical novels published in the 1930s and 40s, it is distinguished by some extremely interesting considerations on the varied fortunes that characterized the life of Miguel de Cervantes. Indeed, Frank’s work differs from many others written at that time. Here there is a total absence of any utopian belief in the revolutionary possibilities of literature, and any idea of improving the world through the ‘power of the word’ is seen as pure illusion. In contrast, the «humane gentleman» Frank, who, being Jewish, was forced into exile shortly after the rise of Hitler, depicts that mysterious link between life and art, between goodness and human dignity: the values upon which a disenchanted European humanism is based.File | Size | Format | |
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