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
Haha, onde é que eu já ouvi esta história da irmã, amante e noiva? ;-)
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