Salambo
Salambo , original French title Salammbô , is a historical novel by Gustave Flaubert published in 1862 .
Based on historical events, the work describes the course of the mercenary uprising that took place after the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War from 241 to around 238 BC. Broke out in North Africa. The title character Salammbô , the daughter of the Carthaginian general Hamilkar Barkas in the novel , is fictional.
Flaubert's novel, the exotic and drastic descriptions of which impressed the contemporary audience very much, was dramatized several times. a. in an unfinished opera by Mussorgsky .
Adaptations
Salammbô , painting by Gaston Bussière , 1907
The material of the novel and the figure of Salambo have been adapted in various ways:
Opera
- 1863–66 Salammbô , unfinished opera by Modest Mussorgsky
- 1890 Salammbô , opera by Ernest Reyer
- 1929 opera by Josef Matthias Hauer
- 1998 Opera by Philippe Fénélon , libretto by Jean-Yves Masson , world premiere at the Opéra Bastille
Movie
- 1914 Cabiria , by Giovanni Pastrone ; Free adaptation of the material based on the script by Gabriele d'Annunzio
- 1924 Salammbô , silent film by Pierre Marodon , music by Florent Schmitt
- 1960 Salammbô , French feature film by Sergio Grieco (German title "Uprising of the Legions")
Visual arts
Salambô et les Colombes , Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse , 1893
- Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse (1859–1938), Salambô et les Colombes , painting, 1893
- Carl Strathmann (1866–1939), Salambo , large-format painting, 1895
- Paul Eugene Breton (1868–1933), Salammbo , 1899, bronze (0.9 m)
- Théodore Rivière (1857–1912): Salambo with Matho, I love you! I love you! , 1895, small bronze group, ivory, gold and turquoise, Musée d'Orsay , Paris
- Alfons Mucha : Salammbô , 1896
- Book illustrations by Pierre Noel , 1931
Other
- 1923 Salambo , dance drama by the actress and dancer Lucie Kieselhausen (1897–1927) with music by Heinz Tiessen , premiered in Duisburg 1929
- 1941 A fictional opera called Salammbo plays in the film Citizen Kane by Orson Welles a role. The excerpt shown in the film was composed by Bernard Herrmann .
- 1988 Salammbo , play by Charles Ludlam
- 1980–86 Salammbo , 3-part science fiction comic series by Philippe Druillet
- 2003 Salammbo: Battle for Carthage , computer game from the manufacturer Dreamcatcher Interactive
- 2005 radio play, WDR production, Der Audio Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-89813-380-X , with Anna Thalbach as Salambo
- Salambo was a nightspot on the Große Freiheit in Hamburg - St. Pauli
expenditure
French
- Salammbô . Michel Lévy frères, Paris 1863 (first edition, published November 24, 1862).
- Salammbô. Édition définitive avec des documents nouveaux . G. Charpentier, Paris 1874 (last edition). A digitized version of a new edition from 1881 can be found online on the website of the French National Library.
German
There are several translations into German:
- Salammbô . German by Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski . JCC Brun's Verlag, Minden in Westphalia [1908]. Last published by Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 978-3-257-20722-4 .
- Salambo: A novel from Old Carthage . German by Arthur Schurig . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1912. Available online from Project Gutenberg .
- Salammbô . German by Robert Habs. Philipp Reclam jun., Leipzig 1925 (= Reclams Universal Library No. 1650). Republished several times , most recently with an afterword by Günter Metken at Reclam, Ditzingen 2011, ISBN 3150202221 .
- Salammbô: The grandiose novel about the battle for Carthage . German by Georg Goyert , edited by Bernd Holger Bonsels. Limes Verlag, Wiesbaden 1946. Last published by Goldmann, Munich 1974.
- Salammbô . German by Georg Brustgi. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-458-32042-3 .
- Salammbo . German by Birgit Reß-Bohusch . Heyne Verlag, ISBN 3-45310-968-6 .
- Salambo . German by Petra-Susanne Räbel. Haffmans Verlag, Zurich 1999, ISBN 3-251-20295-2 . New edition by Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 3596901529 .
Secondary literature
- Alexej Baskakov: From Realism to Modernity. The depiction of the ancient Orient in “Salammbô” by Gustave Flaubert and “Joseph and his brothers” by Thomas Mann. (= Epistemata; Series Literary Studies; 280). Königshausen u. Neumann, Würzburg 1999, ISBN 3-8260-1678-5 .
- Volker Dürr: Flaubert's Salammbô: The Ancient Orient as a Political Allegory of Nineteenth-century France . Peter Lang, New York 2002, ISBN 0820456764 .
- Daniel Fauvel and Yvan Leclerc (eds.): Salammbô de Flaubert: Histoire, fiction . Honoré Champion, Paris 1999, ISBN 274530058X (= Romantisme et modernités 22).
- Bernard Gagnebin: Flaubert et Salammbô: Genèse d'un texte . Presses universitaires de France, Paris 1992, ISBN 2130441378 .
- Anne Green: Flaubert and the Historical Novel: Salammbô Reassessed . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York 1981, ISBN 0521237653 .
- Klaus Ley (Ed.): Flaubert's Salammbô in Music, Painting, Literature and Film. Articles and texts. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-8233-5185-0 .
- Henri Scepi: "Salammbô" de Flaubert . Gallimard, Paris 2003, ISBN 207041910X .
Web links
Commons : Salammbô - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Gustave Flaubert: Salambo in Project Gutenberg ( currently not available to users from Germany ) (German)
Individual evidence
