Author, as appears in the article.: Magí Sunyer Molné

Department: Filologia Catalana

URV's Author/s: Sunyer Molné, Magí

Abstract: This article explores the intertextual relations between Faust, by JohannWolfgang von Goethe, and two texts by Apel?les Mestres: the poem and the dramaGaziel (from 1891 and 1909, respectively). The influence of German literature onMestres, and particularly of Goethe and Heine, is such that Gaziel can be regarded as adirect reproduction. The fact that Gaziel, Faust’s parallel, is a Poet frames the work aspart of the debate on the Artist, which was a feature of Catalan Modernisme, andrelates to Mestres’ status as a complete man of letters – draftsman, musician, poet,playwright and prose writer – which was made abundantly clear by the magnificentillustrations of the poem’s first edition. The ironic relationship between Mephisto-pholes and Gaziel provides the basis for an analysis of the function of the devil in thetwo works and the game of complicities that Mestres constructs around his character.

Thematic Areas: Literature, romance Literature and literary theory Linguistics and language Language and linguistics Language & linguistics Filologia, lingüística i sociolingüística

licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/

Author's mail: magi.sunyer@urv.cat

Author identifier: 0000-0003-1966-060X

Record's date: 2023-04-16

Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

Link to the original source: http://www.romanistik.uni-freiburg.de/pusch/zfk/cat/2019.htm

Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/

Papper original source: Zeitschrift Fur Katalanistik. (32): 271-288

APA: Magí Sunyer Molné (2019). Gaziel, d’Apel.les Mestres:: un Mefisto irònic i un Faust bohemi. Zeitschrift Fur Katalanistik, (32), 271-288

Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Journal publication year: 2019

Publication Type: Journal Publications