Sprechkunst and the Spell of the Commodity: Klaus Kinski on Tour
2020; German Studies Association; Volume: 43; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/gsr.2020.0080
ISSN2164-8646
Autores Tópico(s)Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
ResumoIn the late 1950s and early 1960s, Klaus Kinski’s recitations of canonical literary texts embodied the uncomfortable collision of literary culture and the culture industry. The journalistic reaction to these performances, in particular to his national tours of 1960 and 1962, reveals anxieties about the relationship between aesthetic judgment and the irrationality of newly emergent publics oriented towards the consumption of popular cultural forms. At the center of this set of anxieties was the scandal attending Kinski’s attempts to fuse aesthetic and religious experience in auratic displays that evoked what Walter Benjamin described as the “putrid magic” of the commodity.
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