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Tra Gerusalemme e Atene: Scritti sull'ebraismo (Schulim Vogelmann)
Il libro Tra Gerusalemme e Atene offre per la prima volta al pubblico italiano una prospettiva d’insieme sul rapporto di Benjamin Fondane con l’ebraismo. Il volume raccoglie gli articoli che il giovane Fondane (Fundoianu) scrisse per alcuneriviste ebraiche di lingua romena, oltre a una sezione antologica tratta dalla sua opera francese. Al pari di Kafka, Celan, Šestov e molti altri scrittori ebrei del XX secolo, Fondane tentò di definire il proprio legame con la religione ebraica. Nei libri profetici e nella Cabbalà intravide un’alternativa al pensiero logico-razionale greco. Ma la tradizione ebraica, in cui la collettività prevale sull’esistenza individuale, non poté rappresentare una via percorribile per colui che tentava diliberare Dio dal giogo della Legge e della morale. Né il suo interesse per la Bibbia poteva infine risolversi in un atto di fede capace di dissipare il dramma del vivere. Contro ogni tentativo volto a pacificare il reale, Fondane ravvisò l’incolmabiledistanza che separa rivelazione e ragione, vita e sapere, Gerusalemme e Atene. Benjamin Fondane (1898-1944), autore francese di origine romena, nacque a Iaşi da un’importante famiglia ebraica proveniente dalla Bucovina. Sin da giovane entrò in contatto con i principali esponenti della cultura ebraica romena, dedicandosi inoltre alla stesura dei suoi primi componimenti poetici. Giunto a Parigi nel 1923, divenne discepolo del pensatore russo Lev Šestov, cui dedicò una serie di scritti raccolti nel volume In dialogo con Lev Šestov. Tra le sue opere maggiori figurano Rimbaud la canaglia, Falso Trattato di estetica, La coscienza infelice, Baudelaire e l’esperienza dell’abisso. Morì nel campo di sterminio di Auschwitz-Birkenau nel 1944.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 23, 2019
About the author
Benjamin Fondane
43 books30 followersalt spelling: Benjamin Fundoianu
Benjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. During and after World War I, he was active as a cultural critic, avant-garde promoter and, with his brother-in-law Armand Pascal, manager of the theatrical troupe Insula.
Fondane began a second career in 1923, when he moved to Paris. Affiliated with Surrealism, but strongly opposed to its communist leanings, he moved on to become a figure in Jewish existentialism and a leading disciple of Lev Shestov. His critique of political dogma, rejection of rationalism, expectation of historical catastrophe and belief in the soteriological force of literature were outlined in his celebrated essays on Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as in his final works of poetry. His literary and philosophical activities helped him build close relationships with other intellectuals: Shestov, Emil Cioran, David Gascoyne, Jacques Maritain, Victoria Ocampo, Ilarie Voronca etc. In parallel, Fondane also had a career in cinema: a film critic and a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, he later worked on Rapt with Dimitri Kirsanoff, and directed the since-lost film Tararira in Argentina.
A prisoner of war during the fall of France, Fondane was released and spent the occupation years in clandestinity. He was eventually captured and handed to Nazi German authorities, who deported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was sent to the gas chamber during the last wave of the Holocaust. His work was largely rediscovered later in the 20th century, when it became the subject of scholarly research and public curiosity in both France and Romania. In the latter country, this revival of interest also sparked a controversy over copyright issues.
Benjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. During and after World War I, he was active as a cultural critic, avant-garde promoter and, with his brother-in-law Armand Pascal, manager of the theatrical troupe Insula.
Fondane began a second career in 1923, when he moved to Paris. Affiliated with Surrealism, but strongly opposed to its communist leanings, he moved on to become a figure in Jewish existentialism and a leading disciple of Lev Shestov. His critique of political dogma, rejection of rationalism, expectation of historical catastrophe and belief in the soteriological force of literature were outlined in his celebrated essays on Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud, as well as in his final works of poetry. His literary and philosophical activities helped him build close relationships with other intellectuals: Shestov, Emil Cioran, David Gascoyne, Jacques Maritain, Victoria Ocampo, Ilarie Voronca etc. In parallel, Fondane also had a career in cinema: a film critic and a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, he later worked on Rapt with Dimitri Kirsanoff, and directed the since-lost film Tararira in Argentina.
A prisoner of war during the fall of France, Fondane was released and spent the occupation years in clandestinity. He was eventually captured and handed to Nazi German authorities, who deported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was sent to the gas chamber during the last wave of the Holocaust. His work was largely rediscovered later in the 20th century, when it became the subject of scholarly research and public curiosity in both France and Romania. In the latter country, this revival of interest also sparked a controversy over copyright issues.
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