Re: When was Wagner at his most suicidal?

"Laon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Anyway, here's the publisher's blurb for _Wagner and Suicide_:
>
> "This investigation of the suicidal themes in Wagner's life and operas
> -Die Fliegender Holländer, Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Tristan und Isolde,
> Die Meistersinger, the Ring cycle, and Parsifal- shows how
> manic-depressive illness, particularly the depressive part of it,
> affected Wagner's life and art. This book also analyzes the influence
> of Giambattista Vico's theories of cycles (and how these theories
> appeared in Wagner's work), suicide as a theatrical and operatic
> phenomenon, and the way the theme of suicide has appeared in other
> works of the literary and performing arts."
>
> Ah... _Penetrating Wagner's Ring_, by John diGaetano.
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Lord preserve us.  And Vico, no less.

Jesus.

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