@article{Paleari_2014, title={Il gioco dei ruoli. Avanguardia e tradizione in Mein Herz e Der Malik di Else Lasker-Schüler}, url={https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/3980}, DOI={10.13130/2035-7680/3980}, abstractNote={<p>Else Lansker-Schueler always tried to present her existence as a legend or a fairy tale.<br />Her literary production is entirely based on the strong subjectivism of the german expressionism; <br />also the Hebrew Mythology and its imagery is an important source of inspiration.<br />The author,lying about her real life, constantly remains on the border between the Reality and the Poetry.<br />The Lansker-Schuler’s idea of a perfect identity between Life and Literature has brought as a consequence <br />that her texts are read as a spontaneous poetization of her biography.<br />Nonetheless, her literary production and letters are neither an ingenuous (auto)biography in line or in prose, <br />nor a sure documetary source.<br />In this essay I will explain that this attitude is nothing but the poetic construction of the Modernity central experience: <br />the Subject, according to Frederick Nietzsche’s Philosophy, is conscious that any social, religious, moral system <br />is fictitious. Thinking so, only an autonomous poetic world can assure the (linguistic) surviving of the Ego.<br />To demonstrate this hypothesis, I will focus on two prose texts which Else Lansker-Schuler composed,<br />being inspired by her artistic and intellectual world (The berlin Bohème): Mein Herz (1912) and Der Malik (1919). <br />In particular, I will deal with two elements, which are important in the representation of the Ego <br />and in the construction of a language imagery: 1) The choice of the epistolary style; 2) the interaction between the roles <br />played by the "Writing Ego" and by the surrounding characters.</p>}, journal={Altre Modernità}, author={Paleari, Moira}, year={2014}, month={apr.}, pages={144–155} }