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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15291/gem.4362

„I wanted to go to the sea, always to the sea“. On the image of the sea in Ilma Rakusa‘s „Mehr Meer“

Manfred Weinberg ; Charles University in Prague


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Abstract

The essay inquires into the meaning of the sea in Ilma Rakusa‘s
„Memory Passages“ Mehr Meer (drawing on the collection Mein Alphabet,
published ten years later). Although it seems obvious at first
to take the sea in Rakusa‘s work as something inconceivably sublime
in the sense of Immanuel Kant, a closer look reveals that it always
remains tangible, that it is always a concrete and viewable sea. This,
however, stands as a promise of an unattainable unity and wholeness,
the signs of which are also evident in poetic memory.

Keywords

Ilma Rakusa, Mehr Meer, Mein Alphabet, Remembrance, Immanuel Kant

Hrčak ID:

312048

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/312048

Publication date:

22.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: german

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