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The concept of the “magic circle” (Johan Huizinga) defines the stage and the specific performative conditions for magic to work. This concept which was applied by Huizinga to spaces such as the courtroom, the church or the theatre is extended in this essay to the page of the literary text. It is argued that something of the age-old magic of oral poetry is preserved in contemporary German memory fiction that stages an encounter with dead family members. In novels by Peter Härtling (Nachgetragene Liebe) and Uwe Timm (Am Beispiel meines Bruders) a repressed past is emotionally revisited and at the same time exposed to new reflection in the light of hindsight. The therapeutic setting of “family constellation” is introduced as another manifestation of the magic circle in our contemporary world in which latent traumas are acted out and worked through in a cathartic process.
Prendendo le mosse dal romanzo "Cemento" (1982) tenterò di delineare una costellazione di motivi che fanno dell'opera e della riflessione estetica di Thomas Bernhard un referente esemplare rispetto ad alcune questioni di evidente risonanza filosofica: il rapporto tra parola e silenzio, tra opera e fallimento, tra nonsenso e senso. È proprio il dualismo perenne tra questi due poli a restituire le coordinate entro le quali deve essere collocato, nel pensiero narrativo bernhardiano, il tema centrale e ricorrente del compito, che deve essere eseguito ma che di fatto si rivela ineseguibile.