3 total passage: Examination of the paradigm

The announced check list for the naturally very incomplete overview of Metaphorik, figure arsenal and action pattern of the complete work would be thus together:

With view of the variations of the sample with Arno Schmidt also its means are to be examined, there the traditional patriarchalische Initiationshelfer (" Mentor ") are either only rudimentarily available - and then are veraechtlich drawn or are missing completely in following type, target and result of these Initiation, and.

"hollow worlds"

Under the " hollow worlds " sketched by Arno Schmidt is the cosmos of the " Leviathan " maximal and also most threatening, since it is understood " in contraction ". The space feeling of the terrestrial action corresponds to the cosmic closed space like " low grey day " or " perlmutternes Gewoelk " and the allusion on Piranesis " Carceri ". The described " travel into the grey " ends with the branch of the Protagonisten and the Anne wolf of the bridge to " water hell ". Further items of the Initiationsgeschichte: Anne wolf - obvious a " H-W [ = Hanne Wulff, H.D. ] - derivative " - which actually the cosmological lecture of the NCO applies, is to be identified easily as Artemis version of the large nut/mother. At a station, the initiatorischen place of the separation and the new beginning thus, the action begins; also the Namenlosigkeit of the Protagonisten signals the " output " of the Initianden. Besides Schmidt, like already into " the stone heart ", mixes the two image fields: Again the suction of painting Rome, this time as contracting universe, is which central metaphor - which radio essay lists the underworld journeys of the world literature from the antiquity to Franz Werfel over the literary " master thieves " up - an episode, which nocturnal walk, repetitive in almost all stories Arno Schmidts, explained in " evening with edge of gold " in such a way: " go in the night as into hollow mountains "; the box world of the Kosmas, Lykophrons gnostischer dream of the cosmos as rock cave, " flying Robert ", countless views to the Himmels"gewoelbe " are further vouchers - the course journey aliases " Joachim " in " Pocahontas " is a water journey at various rivers along to the stupid, the Undine Selma Wientge is in addition, " a hoellenfarbenes girl ", with " the Joachim " in " the soundsovielten hell set " feels etc.. To the orphischen character of the " black mirrors " already at the beginning one referred; the trespass beyond the border past to " hoellisch lightyellow and black geringelten stakes " is marked not fewer clearly than into " the stone heart "; that, again nameless, storyteller establishes itself in the proximity of a former station, where he meets his " HW derivative "; the schlesische origin of many woman shapes lets the underworld journey to be appeared also as time journey into the past, the author as the storyteller. " the sky, the protecting beautiful curvature " appears also in the youth memories of the storyteller, with positive Konnotationen, which ambivalence of this like the other pictures Arno Schmidts accordingly - further ones of vouchers to underworld journeys could be taught still easy, by " Brand's Haide " over " KAFF " to " Zettel's dream ". An underworld, as I, is always as past or as the unconscious of the storyteller place of the action.

Water worlds

Underworld and water world are accordingly in Arno Schmidts picture cosmos Aquivalente, their identical function as matriarchalischem place of the Initiation. First the appearing harmless vacation trip in " Pocahontas " about is a water journey at rivers along up to the stupid, apparently without each so-called Selma Wientge can as " voice from the lake " be heard and controlled than " Wasserjungfer ", at the same time the name of an insect) also the " Undinentricks " etc.. An early " piece of water " is vrwegnehmend " the young Mr. Siebold " of 1941 with the Zauberer van that sea as Mentor, with an underwater journey in painting Rome and, the later stagnation youth eternal at the end of the Initiationsreisen, the prevention of the Zauberer and the renouncement of its supply - a water world is also the " Kosmas ", beginning with the siren dream of the Lykophron up to the " dead-white belt fish " and other sea miracles, which Lykophron of the Agraule shows; the " Zitterrochen, as largely as it " (Agraule), which it it shows, refers to a further motive, which the island, belonging to to the water complex, and the " Pharos" fragment, where, " completely as in the inferno ", a Zitterrochen plays a deadly role. " Pharos " is beside an island however mainly a father history, on which I will return. *** TRANSLATION ENDS HERE ***