Salina Williams

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures Wednesday, April 24th 1:30PM in RSC 313 Dr. Ulrich Bach Visiting Associate Professor of German Political Re-convalescence: Peter Weiss on Rimbaud/Hölderlin After the disastrous critical reception of his 1969 play Trotsky in Exile, German writer and artist Peter Weiss spent some time developing ideas on Arthur Rimbaud, a creative process that was interrupted by a heart attack in the summer of 1970. While in convalescence, Weiss devoted himself to writing a play about the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, published in 1971, and his engagement with Rimbaud was limited to a set of notes and an unpublished outline of a play. Nonetheless, the French poet resurfaces as a crucial figure in Weiss’s later works, alongside Hölderlin. This talk seeks to carve out both Hölderlin’s and Rimbaud’s visionary images in Weiss’s opus magnum Aesthetics of Resistance. This event is free and open to the public Poster created by S. J. Williams