Jean/Hans Arp | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Jean/Hans Arp.

Jean/Hans Arp | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 23 pages of analysis & critique of Jean/Hans Arp.
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SOURCE: “Arp and Novalis: The Loss of a Sophie,” in Symposium, Vol. 40, No. 3, Fall, 1986, pp. 209-22.

In the following essay, Isaacs discusses the influence of the mystic Novalis on Arp, particularly as evidenced by their respective works responding to the deaths of their loved ones.

“Rêvé-je, lorsque j'aperçois Sophie, lumineuse et calme sur le fond de pétales au blanc clair, d'une étoile au blanc clair? Rêvé-je, lorsque j'entends Sophie parler en moi et que nous nous entretenons ainsi? Rêvé-je, lorsque je vois Sophie, vivante, sereinement morte et, morte sereinement vivante, ciselée ainsi dans une gemme que je tiens entre mes mains réelles? Le souvenir et le rêve s'écoulent l'un dans l'autre comme de puissants fleuves. Ce qui se développe en eux existe éternellement.”1 These are not the words of the great German Christian mystic Frederich...

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