Blue Library
9854 Il discorso del Cristo morto e altri sogni
Jean Paul. Introduction by Giovanni Mariotti
1977 / 96 PAGES.
Language: Italian
Jean Paul is perhaps the first poet of dreamlike fluidity. In his Dreams, of which we offer the anthology of an anthology, he succeeded in expressing what might seem unspeakable in daylight language– the experience of the Nebula and the Swarm .
The people in our dreams are and are not specific people; the places we dream of are and are not specific places. This fluidity is a gentle invitation, and perhaps a warning, that the night extends to the cutting edge of reason, to the rigidity of language. Dreaming restores us from wakefulness, and wakefulness from dreaming. Wakefulness and dreams are two-faced: both know bliss and anguish, romance and destruction. The writing of dreams weaves them together in a process that Jean Paul (romantically) places under the sign of Poetry and Music.