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Die aphoristische Gattung in der zeitgenossischen franzosischen Lyrik ist lebendig und innovativ. Am Beispiel dreier herausragender Dichter werden in Mikroanalysen Spezifika des poetischen Aphorismus erarbeitet. Jabes' Aphorismen und Rabbinerspruche spiegeln, etwa in den Textfiguren der "Frage" und des "Augenblicks", die Strukturen seines Hauptwerks; Michaux' Poetik des "poeme-action" lasst sich auf seine Aphorismen ubertragen; in Chars Texten brechen asymmetrische Oppositionen starre Polaritaten auf. Der poetische Aphorismus erweist sich im 20. Jahrhundert als Moglichkeit, gultige Aussagen zu treffen, die sich in ihrer dynamischen Sinnkonstitution selbst wieder in Frage zu stellen vermogen und so stets des Zweifels eingedenk bleiben. An der Schnittstelle von aphoristisch-gnomischen Traditionen und moderner Lyrik situiert, lasst er damit die Definitionsmodelle einer Aphoristik-Forschung revidierungsbedurftig erscheinen, die sich zu stark am germanistischen Vorbild orientiert. "Die gattungstheoretischen Erwagungen sowie die stilkritischen Analysen bilden die Glanzstucke der insgesamt eindringlich argumentierenden Studie, da Vf. in diesen Passagen ihr souveranes Abstraktionsvermogen und ihre analytische Luziditat in besonderem Masse unter Beweis stellt. ... eine innovative und gehaltvolle Fortfuhrung der Diskussion uber den modernen Aphorismus." Romanische Forschungen. (Franz Steiner 1998) ... Read more

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Haikuesqes Amongst John Ashbery's Lines


I take a scheduled bus from the hills of the Eastern Galilee to the capital of Israel.Thank G-d (god) the vehicle does not take a long seashore route around Samaria with its hostile population of stone throwers but boldly runs down the Jordan Valley and ascends to Jerusalem.

the Wailing Wall
on the women's side
more caper shrubbery

Darkness falls quickly. I find myself in a modern theater located in the city's best neighborhood.
Shimon Peres, an architect of the New Middle East, former minister of many ministries lends his rich voice to art festival."What language should I speak? English or Hebrew?" he asks. A quick Jewish mind
in the audience breaks out verbally:"Arabic!"
Mr. Peres delivers a do-gooder's speech advocating coexistence and cooperation. His cantor-like voice reaches far and high: "A free democratic Palestinian state!" Somebody adds "An armed one also."
"What?" says Mr. Peres, but no elucidation follows.


Old City skyline:
MINARETS, CHURCH BELL TOWERS
NO SIGN OF THE JEWS

THE FESTIVAL CONTINUES IN A TURKISH CARAVANSERAI
A STONE THROW FROM MOUNT ZION.
BARD COLLEGE PROFESSOR JOHN ASHBERY IS A CELEBRITY HERE. HE READS HIS POEMS AND THEY APPEAR ON THE SCREEN IN ENGLISH AND HEBREW.
HIS LONGER POEMS CONTAIN HAIKU-LIKE LINES:
"IN THE FLICKERING EVENING THE MARTINS GROW DENSER."
HE HAS AUTHORED HIS OWN HAIKU AND HAIBUN
BUT WHAT HE CALLS HAIKU ARE REALLY SHORT DITTIES:

"WHAT IS THE PAST,
what is it all for?
A MENTAL SANDWICH?"

WHEN MINGLING STARTS I GATHER ENOUGH CHUTZPA TO TALK TO HIM. I GIVE HIM SOME HAIKU FLIERS AND I EVEN SUGGEST WRITING RENKU TOGETHER WITH OTHER POETS.
MR. ASHBERY DISPASSIONATELY FILES MY MATERIALS.
AND HE IS LED AWAY.

JERUSALEM ROOF
4 AM-MUEZZIN, 6AM-CHURCH BELLS
SILENCE OF JEWS
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French/English parallel texts. Char is regarded as one of the most important modern French poets. Admired by Heidegger for the profundity of his poetic philosophy, he was also a hero of the French Resistance. Associated with the surrealist movement, he wrote poetry which confronts the major twentieth century moral, political, and artistic concerns with a simplicity of vision and expression that owes much to the poet-philosophers of ancient Greece. ... Read more