„Was man nur mit den Augen erzählen kann.“ Herta Müllers Collagenband Im Heimweh ist ein blauer Saal (2019) im Kontext des Erfahrungsdualismus der literarischen Ästhetik
‘‘Was man nur mit den Augen erzählen kann.“ (“What can only be told with your eyes.”) Herta Müller’s collage poem Im Heimweh ist ein blauer Saal (2019) in the framework of experience dualism in the aesthetics of literature

Summary/Abstract: For about twenty years Herta Müller has established a procedure in her work that is predominantly visually organized. However, she herself describes this process, which is preceded by the cutting of countless words and sentences from print media, as writing. Müller later combines these fragments in various fonts, sizes and colours, initially gathered together randomly, into new texts, guided by intuitive and visual impulses. She supplements each of these texts with a pictorial element, likewise cut out with scissors or arranged from various elements. In Müllers recently published volume ''Im Heimweh ist ein blauer Saal'' (2019), visuality acquires a new quality even for Müller’s collages: It transcends the composition and the external appearance of the collages and involves the speaking instance of numerous collages in reflections on image and idea, on sense and intellect. The relevance of the visual for the narrative is based on the idea of linking not only two media, but also two modes of cognition: that of the senses and that of the intellect. In recourse to Baumgarten’s reflections on a sensual wholeness of aesthetic experience (1750), this contribution is devoted to the aesthetic linking of narrative visualization strategies in the collages.

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