Desplegando a Melusina: acerca de un proyecto inconcluso de Walter Benjamin

Vinardell Puig, Maria Teresa

doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.5209/rpub.66181

Desplegando a Melusina: acerca de un proyecto inconcluso de Walter Benjamin

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Vinardell Puig T. Desplegando a Melusina: acerca de un proyecto inconcluso de Walter Benjamin. Res publica: revista de historia de las ideas políticas. 2019;22(3):659-71. DOI: 10.5209/rpub.66181

Abstract

For a long time Walter Benjamin thought about writing an essay on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s tale “Die neue Melusine”, although he never actually carried out this project. The affinity of this story with Benjamin’s micrology has already been rightly indicated. This article develops how Goethe’s tale reflects in its plot some aspects of Benjamin’s conception of the storyteller’s art and the task of philologists. There are also some analogies between Goethe’s text and several thoughts by Benjamin on the nature of childhood, love feelings and loving evocation.