Baudelaire et Wagner. “The intellectual name of love is interest”, wrote Thomas Mann in his Considerations of an apolitical man (1915-1918). The interest, he specifies, "implies an emotional state that is nothing less than lukewarm", which "far exceeds in violence that of admiration'". It is not then in the panegyric, but in "malicious, even hateful" criticism, and in particular in the pamphlet (on condition "that it is spiritual and a product of passion") that this interest is found to be satisfied. The loving challenge that Thomas Mann issued at Wagner during the war is an answer, if possible, to Baudelaire's intention.
University of Florence, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-3758-2190
Book Title
Baudelaire et Wagner
Authors
Michela Landi
Peer Reviewed
Publication Year
2019
Copyright Information
© 2019 Author(s)
Content License
Metadata License
Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-954-6
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-954-6
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-005-2
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi di Filologia Moderna
Series E-ISSN
2420-8361