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This article explores the relations between affects and music in George Sand's novel "Adriani" (1853). It examines how the figuration of music highlights the importance of emotions, as they shift from aesthetic (admiration) to moral (compassion), in her protagonists' moral transformations. However, Sand's transposition of an imaginary musical world in the novel is part and parcel of a much more ambitious project, that of social transformations, notably of relations between the sexes. It is through their dialogue in and via music that her heroes discover each other and themselves, while their intimate trajectories enable the reader to imagine interpersonal relations among equals founded on emotional, intellectual and social reciprocity.
The article deals with Thomas Mann' s attitude to Stefan George and his work. The first part reproduces and comments on Mann's statements about George. It transpires that Thomas Mann's attitude to George was highly contradictory. This fact is mainly due to the self-searching of the North German author against the background of historical events. The article also contains an analysis of two short stories by Thomas Mann ('At the Prophet's' and 'Death in Venice') that have some relation to George (or his disciples) and thus clarify the issues in question.
Rezension zu Claudia Natterer: Faust als Künstler. Michail Bulgakovs 'Master i Margarita' und Thomas Manns 'Doktor Faustus', Heidelberg (Winter) 2002 (= Beiträge zur slavischen Philologie; Bd. 9). 257 Seiten.
Claudia Natterer schließt mit dem Vergleich der beiden großen Künstlerromane des 20. Jahrhunderts 'Master i Margarita' und 'Doktor Faustus' eine Lücke in der umfangreichen germanistischen und komparatistischen Forschung zu den literarischen Bearbeitungen des Fauststoffes.