Gradiva

Gradiva is a novel published in 1903 by the German writer Wilhelm Jensen, which knew a large posterity within the European culture, particularly near the surrealist .

The novel tells the history of the archeologist Norbert Hanold, which falls in worship in front of a Bas-relief from the National museum from Archeology from Naples. He forsakes his life by obsession of that which he names " Gradiva" (of the Latin , " That which marche"), the woman represented on the sculpture. The following night, he dreams that he travels in time and meets the young girl going through Pompei while the Vesuvius is in eruption into 79 before JC.

In 1907, Freud inaugurates the series of the intellectual appropriations of this work, by publishing Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens Gradiva ( Délires and dreams in the " Gradiva" of Jensen ), text pioneer for the psychoanalytical studies of the literature.

El Salvador Dalí used the image of Gradiva in particular in Gradiva finds the ruins of Antropomorphos .

André Masson devoted a painting to him.

Surrealist the André Breton founded a gallery of the name of Gradiva.

Michel Leiris and Jean Jamin took as a starting point the title of this novel (of which they modified the title) to found a review of anthropology: Gradhiva.

Roland Barthes devoted to Gradiva a chapter of its Fragments of a speech in love (1977).

Robbe-Grillet paid homage to Gradiva by carrying out a very free film adaptation with Arielle Dombasle under the title It is Gradiva which calls you , left in 2007.

External references

Extracts from the book of W. Jensen (format pdf

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