sexta-feira, 3 de junho de 2011

Roger Scruton sobre Wagner II

February 2005

Wagner: moralist or monster?
by Roger Scruton
In: The New Criterion

Eis um interessante excerto do artigo:
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«The Wagner presented by Köhler is a figure damaged from the earliest age by an unloving mother and usurping stepfather, but consoled during childhood and adolescence by the tender love of a favorite sister. Wagner idealized this sister as the good anima of his dreams, and wandered through adult life in the hope of meeting her. Her role was to redeem him, to assuage all guilt, suffering and rejection by sacrificing herself on the altar of his need—and all this not only as a sister but also as a lover and a bride. » (...)

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/wagner-moralist-or-monster-1235

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