„Техники на проглеждането“. Наблюдения върху наративните и теоретичните измерения на „оптиката“ при Хофман и Музил („Ъгловият прозорец“ и „Триедер“)
“Techniques of awakening”. Reflections on the narrative and theoretical dimensions of optics in the works of Hoffmann and Musil („Des Vetters Eckfenster“ and „Triëdere“)

Author(s): Elitsa Dubarova-Petkova
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Novel, Short Story, German Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: Musil; Hoffmann; lorgnette; Triëder (binoculars); imagination; illness-health; estrangement
Summary/Abstract: The two main pillars of modernity, revealing both its material and spiritual essence, are the technical progress, on the one hand, and the aesthetic turn in art, on the other hand. The multiple manifestations of these two aspects of the progress of humanity are diverse in nature. On the surface, it looks as if they have nothing in common. In literature, however, they bond and entwine. The examples which this article focuses on, are two texts, greatly differing in genre and written decades apart from one another, in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, respectively: „Des Vetters Eckfenster“ (My Cousin’s Corner Window) by Hoffmann and Triëdere (Binoculars) by Robert Musil. The optical “provision” in the two texts, the lorgnette in Hoffmann’s story and the Triëder (binoculars) in Musil’s essay, creates an exceptionally intriguing aesthetic challenge, unveiling the way we perceive the world beyond the visible.

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