Flutes and daggers

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The volume Flöten und Dolche brings together four novels by Heinrich Mann and was published by Albert Langen in Munich in 1905 .

In the successor to Gustave Flaubert , the young author addresses the discrepancy between art and life under the banner of L'art pour l'art .

In the years 1904 to 1931 René Schickele , Karl Hans Strobl , Julie Speyer, Richard Schaukal , Paul Block, Kasimir Edschmid and Dora Genser commented on the novellas.

Heinrich Mann in 1906

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Pippo Spano

See Pippo Spano .

Fulvia

The 1903 amendment was written in the early 1904 time pre-printed.

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Claudio died in Rome at the age of 75. Fulvia wants to die in Rome like her Claudio. In Rome, old Fulvia Galanti sits with her daughters and tells them about her love for two men - the beautiful Count Oreste Gatti and her husband, the less attractive and much more feeble lawyer Claudio Galanti. Fulvia had not shook hands with the count, who counted himself among the lords of Italy, but with the unsightly freedom fighter Claudio. Together with him she had fought for the unity of Italy from 1848 to 1870 . They had been defeated by the Austrians in Vicenza , Cornuda and Venice . Claudio had been wounded during the fighting; but couldn't stand it in the hospital. In Cesena , Forlì , Comacchio and Pesaro both had served as civil servants; most recently in Parma even as prefect . Fulvia had danced with the king .

The return of the Galanti couple to Rome turned out to be a mistake on the one hand, because the Pope - previously on the side of the Italian freelance group - had the patriots harassed: Claudio was not allowed to work as a lawyer. On the other hand, the Galanti couple were lucky. Count Oreste Gatti had become one of the Pope's henchmen. With the acquiescence and help of the Count, Claudio managed to escape to Turin . Fulvia had stayed behind in Rome. Oreste Gatti could not get his lover Fulvia, but he brought her to the still wounded Claudio in Turin, changed sides - went to war for the unity of Italy - and fell near Varese .

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The fight against social injustice, also one of the themes of the novel Between the Races , which began in 1905 and was published in 1907 , will increasingly be portrayed in Heinrich Mann's novels in the following decades. The liberal author favored the Risorgimento as the counterpart to Bismarck's German Empire .

Three-minute novel

The narrow text, written before the early summer of 1904, was preprinted in August 1904 in the Berliner Wochenblatt Das neue Magazin für Literatur, Kunst und Soziale Leben .

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The first-person narrator tells three little stories in his youth. This Milanese first brought his legacy through as a 21-year-old in Paris . Then - the "sensual existence" comes to an end - he escapes second to Florence . There at the Arno shore he loves the Teatro Pagliano the Pierrot , played by a courtesan. The first-person narrator learns - apparently in a crash course - the hairdressing trade, but cannot end up in his new profession with the “important courtesan”. Both end up in the gutter - not that bad, because the narrator didn't really love the courtesan, he just wanted to love her. This woman is dying. Thirdly, he can escape to Milan from a pair of crooks - siblings who want to deliver the narrator to the knife. A “distinguished, talented lady” is very taken with the stuff he has written there; even more, she must love a scribe like him. However, the narrator only makes friends with the admirer.

The reader too, like the narrator, has to ask himself after reading: “What is reality” in this text?

reception

With the portrayal of his first-person narrator, a dilettante , Heinrich Mann is in good company with Bourget , Barrès , Hermann Bahr and Hofmannsthal . The title of this fragmentary discontinuum should be taken ironically. One could get the idea that Heinrich Mann anticipates what is disturbing that speaks in Kafka's stories. In 1913, Kurt Pinthus agreed to the short version of the present novel: "Neither we nor others have time to lose."

A corridor in front of the gate

The little story was preprinted in the island in 1901 .

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The young knight Lukas leaves the dilapidated castle at home with his four aged relatives behind. In his first adventure out in the world, Lukas chases a thief, but the iron-armored black knight - with the same goal - wins the race. It continues into the wide world. The black man sets the next target. Dianora, the daughter of the Count of Melfi , was robbed by the Sultan of the barberry . During the rescue operation at sea, it is the black knight who frees Dianora from the clutches of the heathen . Out of embarrassment, Lukas cuts the sultan a head. Lukas desires the beautiful. Dianora refuses, because the Sultan has already owned her. Lukas expects thanks for his deed. The woman sees no reason for this. In addition, Dianora replies to Lukas' insistent questioning that he is not powerful enough. That's right. If Dianora has to be carried on the drive home, the black guy will take care of it. More heavy fights are inevitable on the way. In the course of this, Lukas makes Dianora Empress of Trebizond and says that he is now powerful enough. So in the next attempt he dares to go to the ruler's night camp. What a pity! Dianora's white "limbs hung from the armored man's black iron breast". Luke turns away and goes home. In the decaying castle he is mocked by the aged relatives: What did his passage to the gate bring him? Nothing.

Together with the four old people, Lukas does not want to perish in the castle. So he goes out a second time and looks for death on the country road.

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Symbolism and fin de siècle are the two drawers into which this text from the author's early work can be classified. The Phantast Lukas steps out into the world and wants to conquer the beautiful Dianora. The black knight comes before him with every action. Lukas' conclusion: it's still better outside than at home.

Self-testimony

Heinrich Mann wrote on July 20, 1947: "A fine Austrian said about flutes and daggers in 1903 that everything was brilliant, including the title."

literature

First edition
  • Heinrich Mann: Flutes and Daggers. Novellas . Albert Langen, Munich 1905, DNB 574983996 .
Used edition
  • Flutes and daggers. Novellas. (= Fischer. 5931; = Heinrich Mann: study edition in individual volumes). Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-596-25931-1 .
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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heide Eilert in the afterword of the edition used, p. 97.
  2. ^ Julie Speyer in the NDB
  3. ^ Paul Block in the NDB
  4. ↑ Edition used, pp. 146–147.
  5. ↑ Edition used, p. 117 above
  6. ^ Italian. The battle of Cornuda
  7. ↑ Heide Eilert in the afterword of the edition used, p. 109, 10. Zvu - p. 110, 11. Zvo
  8. ↑ Sprengel, p. 337, 2nd Zvo
  9. ↑ Edition used, p. 117, 7th Zvu
  10. ^ Italian Teatro Pagliano
  11. ↑ Edition used, p. 82, 8th Zvu
  12. ^ Heide Eilert in the afterword of the edition used, p. 104, 1. Zvo - p. 107, 5. Zvo
  13. ↑ Kurt Pinthus, quoted in Sprengel, p. 174, 19. Zvu
  14. ↑ Edition used, p. 118, 15. Zvu
  15. ↑ Edition used, p. 94, 2. Zvo
  16. ↑ Heide Eilert in the afterword of the edition used, p. 107, 6th Zvo - p. 109, 11th Zvu
  17. ^ Heinrich Mann, quoted in the appendix of the edition used, p. 120, 6th Zvu