Despre „regele care plânge”. Hermă la Tonio Kröger
The „crying king”. Tonio Kröger - a hermeneutic approach

Summary/Abstract: Being in an "enigmatic contrast to others", Tonio Kröger bears the daimonic sign of loneliness. The failure of communion (Hans) and the failure of love (Ingeborg) consistently impose the aesthetic solution on him. Here, aestheticism synthesizes the romantic dream and the modernist negation, the austral and the boreal sphere of the personality; so the hero hesitates, like a Hamletian avatar, between Nature and Himself. The final synthesis, which solves the crisis of knowledge, is achieved through the conjunction of ethics and aesthetics, expressed through an introspective interrogation: "Does understanding everything mean forgiving everything?" But individuation is obtained only in the plane of the inner courts, through Hans and Inge, who symbolize "animus" and "anima", the androgynous shadow of the self, the self-realized phantasm.

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