Eurydice's Face: the Paradox of Mallarmé's Musical Poetics
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摘要: 本文由布朗肖的评论出发,论证马拉美看似矛盾的诗学可以比拟作希腊神话中吹笛手奥菲斯入地府去寻找爱妻的心路历程。如同奥菲斯深入地府,马拉美也曾梦想着他的音乐诗学可以提炼出隐秘的物质的精华。但也如同奥菲斯禁忌的回首摧毁了他的爱妻,马拉美发现这样的梦想侵犯了物质的神秘性,只会使物质彻底消失。本文前两节借由马拉美的散文诗和叔本华的音乐哲学阐述马拉美较少为人知的梦想:他希望能找出“等同于季节的音乐方程式”,把万物的核心收纳到一本书的炼金术。最末节论证马拉美的“空无”并非独立于物质世界的存在,而是在尝到禁忌的欲望的苦果后,紧紧拥抱着“空无”以保证不再侵犯、暴露物质的神秘性。Abstract: Inspired by Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) who compares Stéphane Mallarmé's (1842-1898) poetics to Orpheus's descent into the underworld, this article seeks to account for the relationship between the two seemingly contradictory sides of Mallarmé as a psychological journey-one that seeks the mystery of things hidden in eternal night, and the other proclaims that poetry should contain nothingness only as the Orphic poet realizes that his desire to find the essence has violated the law and would thus make the thing disappear altogether. The first two sections of the article elucidate Mallarmé's lesser-known musical poetics which seeks to distill the essence of things, to transcribe "the symphonic equation proper to the seasons," with reference to his prose poems and Arthur Schopenhauer's (1788-1860) philosophy of music. The final section argues that Mallarmé's nothingness means not autonomous language, as asserted by his idealist predecessors or structuralist/poststructuralist critics, but an ethical pronouncement to protect the mystery of the thing from poetic exploitation and exhaustion.
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Key words:
- MallarméSchopenhauer /
- musical poetics /
- de-anthropocentrism /
- object-oriented ontology /
- ethics /
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