FragmentenSchrift. Über die Zersplitterung der Totalität in der Moderne (original) (raw)

During the 20th century the theme of fragmentation, symbol of modernity, is linked with the transformation of the concept of totality that has started since romanticism. Out of this reflection new strategies of figurations are generated. Stated in her absence, the utopia of totality originates in the perception of the deconstruction of any organic, total hypothesis. This perception is hidden in the signs of disintegration, dynamic enagrams of a world in dissolution. In this sense, the fragment becomes an autonomous unit, part of a dissolved totality. The close-reading of works, where we can find the broken unity of the form and the onset of fragmentation (from Adalbert Stifter, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Georg Trakl and Franz Janowitz to Arnold Schönberg and Wassily Kandinsky), highlights the onset of new figures and images. Even though they represent the wound of fragmentation, they also manage to rebuilt a new space for the man who lives in a precarious and torn modernity.