Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article is a hermeneutic reading of the conversation between Augustus and Virgil in Hermann Broch's novel Der Tod des Vergil (1945) [The Death of Virgil]. Drawing on the hermeneutic conceptions of dialogue put forward by Gadamer and Szondi, we question the nature of the dialogue between the emperor and the poet about the fate of the Aeneid, and whether or not understanding is possible. The dialectical oscillation resulting from the hermeneutic analysis deployed leads us, beyond the two canonically established interpretations (Weigand and Komar), to propose an alternative interpretation of Virgil's final decision to hand over his manuscript. This interpretation illuminates the relationship between literature and power.
Source: Tropelías/Tropelías
Author: Etna Miró
Institution: Universitat de Barcelona
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4412687651