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Between 1816 and 1821, the philologist François Raynouard (1761–1836) published a "Choix des poésies originales des troubadours". His connections with Madame de Staël's cultural circle at Coppet determined the construction of the myth of courtly love as a forerunner of Romantic love. [...] Acording to this cultural tradition, Dante is an intermediate (although pre-eminent) step in the history of Western desire, a process begun in medieval Provence and revitalized by European Romanticism. When Lacan approaches Dante, it is therefore one Dante - this Dante - that he is approaching. The present essay, in which Fabio Camilletti analyses three tightly interwoven texts, explores some of the reverberations of this encounter. In 1958, Lacan published in "Critique" an article entitled 'La jeunesse d'André Gide, ou la lettre et le désir'. This text, later included in Lacan's "Écrits", was meant to be a review of a biography of the young Gide published in 1956 by Jean Delay, entitled "La jeunesse d'André Gide". In comparing Gide's life with his works of youth, Delay notably focused on Gide's novel of 1891, "Les Cahiers d'André Walter", the third text on which Camilletti focuses his inquiry. These three texts evoke in various ways the relationship between Dante and Beatrice, using it as a cultural allusion through which specific problems of sexuality (or, better, of the absence of sexuality) are conveyed. This essay aims therefore to be a study in the rhapsodic and subterranean presence of Dante and the "Vita Nova" between the end of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, as well as in the relationship between literature and psychoanalysis through the quartet Dante-Gide-Delay-Lacan.
André Gide, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka und Robert Walser haben den verlorenen Sohn literarisch in der Moderne beheimatet: Gides "Le retour de l’enfant prodigue" erschien 1907, Rilkes "Legende vom verlorenen Sohn" 1909/10 als Schlusskapitel des "Malte Laurids Brigge" im Vorabdruck in der "Neuen Rundschau". Dort las Kafka den Text noch bevor der Roman im Mai 1910 im Inselverlag vorlag und ehe auch Rilkes Übersetzung von Gides "Rückkehr des verlorenen Sohns" 1913 erschien. Kafkas "Heimkehr" entstand im Winter 1923/24 in Berlin, blieb allerdings unpubliziert im Nachlass. Von Robert Walser sind zwei "Verlorene Söhne" überliefert: 1917
erschien eine "Geschichte vom verlorenen Sohn" in der "Neuen Zürcher Zeitung", 1928 das Prosastück "Der verlorene Sohn" im "Berliner Tageblatt". All diesen Texten ist gemeinsam, dass sie das biblische Gleichnis (Lukas 15,11-32) neu erzählen. Sie lösen Erzählverlauf, Erzählsituation und Handlungskette auf und knüpfen sie neu. Damit errichten sie jeweils unterschiedliche, von der Vorlage ganz verschiedene Bezüge
des Subjekts im Verhältnis zu seiner Umwelt. Die Versionen von Gide, Walser und Rilke sollen im Folgenden vergleichend betrachtet werden.