Impressionism (literature)

The term Impressionism is used in the German literature as literarhistorischer concept of order, but without continuous professional scientific consensus, as it is often perceived as too " imprecise ". The proponents of the concept believe that the movement of Impressionism, the subjective reproduction of candid impressions, alongside painting and music at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century also sensed the literature.

Impressionism - term

Impressionism is derived from the Latin word and means impressio impression. He is a name for a widespread 1890-1920 literature that focused on the linguistic presentation momentary faulty perceptions. In the literature the Impressionism is the transition from naturalism, which describes the reality of things, the symbolism that strives to realize the dream.

In painting this impression or mood Impressionist art tries a mood, as it evokes the fleeting moment to capture by a soft-toned color scheme. Here, the interplay of light and shadow is more important than the real structure of things, which literally dissolves into color and light reflections. " Similarly, literary impressionism can be called art of personal instant sensation: from experience that things as they are ' really ', artistic may not be reproduced, Impressionist picks subjective impressions of the world cutouts, and designed them - usually in lyric poems [ ... ] "

As in impressionism painting preserved in the literature of colors and light (for example, the glitter and sparkle of objects) is of great importance in the presentation.

The term " Impressionism " makes it clear that you only want to impressions, impressions hold. The portrayal of reality confronts the description of the perception of this reality in the background.

An example of the new way of seeing reality, represents the 1908 finished unfinished novel The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke; the diary-like notes of the hero Malte Laurids Brigge not tell a coherent story, instead, Environment and memories mediated as pointillist Follow atmospheric impressions.

The resulting in naturalism Sekundenstil versa in Impressionism again; their ideal of detail is taken. Use the Impressionists for their snapshots usually short literary forms, sketches, short stories, one-act plays, poetry.

Impressionistic poet seek the most accurate possible reproduction personal impressions. They also capture the fleeting emotional moods and of the moment, and presentations of sensory impressions. This necessitated a penchant for poetry or a lyrical mood.

The socially critical and political element of naturalism, however, is abandoned in favor of a retreat to the subjectivity and individualism. Recurring themes of Impressionism are living in a world of illusion, an escape from reality and the subjective reality of psychological processes.

The subjectivity of the ego plays a significant role. A significant for the Impressionism theory of the "I " was formulated by the first teaching in Prague and then in Vienna physicist and epistemologist Ernst Mach in his 1885 first published paper the analysis of sensations and the relation of the physical to the psychical. Mach describes the fact that I, whose resistance depends on the properties of which it is composed.

In the essay The unrettbare I Viennese writer Hermann Bahr noted in 1904 that it was in Mach's writing simply to the "philosophy of Impressionism ". According to Mach 's what you feel as a unit of personality, only an apparent unity, one caused by the continuity of slow change deception. Because the thing, the body that matter is nothing but the relation of the elements, the colors, sounds, etc., so a symbiotic relationship of features, is the unchanging "I " is merely a complex structure made of a different, change the subject elements such as Memories, moods, feelings.

Representatives of Impressionism in the literature

  • Czech writers Antonín Sova (1864-1928)
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