Geburt Leben Sterben Tod : Potsdamer Vorlesungen über das Lebenswissen in den romanischen Literaturen der Welt

Abstract

Our own birth and death elude our conscious experience. The world’s literatures give us the opportunity to access the beginning and end of a life, to represent, reflect upon, and (re)stage birth, life, dying, and death. This highly mobile configuration releases a tremendous creative energy, which this volume analyzes against the backdrop of the question of the knowledge of life.