Memoiren eines Moralisten - Das Exil im Exil (German Edition)

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The only location from which he is not moved is the grammatical level of the I, which remains the deictic center. In order to trace the shifts of the speaker on each axis, I will now examine the spatial, the temporal, and the physical structure of the poem more closely. In the category of space, the poem describes a change of the spatial position of the speaker. He introduces a deictic distinction between the inside and the outside. These two spatial dimensions, the outer and the inner, are semantically identified with an existence on and beneath the surface of the earth, respectively.


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According to the poem, there has been a move of the speaker from the outside towards the inside, from above the earth to below Sahl b, ll. While many texts that depict migration or exile use the metaphor of losing their homeland and being rootless, 11 this poem creates an alternate image: It is a dialectic image, as it combines with contrary movements: The speaker is cut-off completely from his former home.

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He left the human world to live in a non-human world, i. It is not clear in the poem whether there would be a way to return above ground, though it is also not explicitly excluded. Yet, longing to return above ground seems itself to be a problem, since the speaker does not dare formulate it as an explicit wish, but rather expresses it indirectly in the form of warning and lament: It becomes clear that the speaker left his position above ground and his usual habitat to find a new place to live. This movement underground also places the speaker in a different social realm, in which small animals and plant roots become his companions instead of human beings Sahl b, ll.

This sphere below seems to be a parallel world to the human one, yet it is out of reach of human perception, or even an exchange of information and experience. The position of the speaker after the migration is therefore not just a move on the spatial axis, but seems to be no longer on the same spatial axis whatsoever. He has moved to a different space from his pre-migration-world and hence been utterly displaced from its former living space. The spatial descriptions in the poem are closely connected to the temporal ones. When the speaker describes his position beneath the ground, it seems that he leaves the present tense of the I-here-now-deixis.

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This seems to be a temporal pane in which everything is preparing to enter the deictic time axis. Above ground, everything is transient, destined to pass away in the end. The words used to describe this ephemerality are all semantically connected to vegetation: Using the fragile life of flowers as an exemplification of an existence above ground shows the vulnerability of living beings in the outside world. So, there is a close connection between plants, human history, and time. The sociologist Norbert Elias sees time as a symbol that allows humans to relate different occurrences to one another and to circulate them in social contexts.

Hence, time is not objective, but related to the human perception and therefore part of the human world, the above Elias , pp.

Leaving human society could thus also be understood as leaving the human concept of time behind. This is what happens when the speaker moves to a sphere before time in the poem. Time, meaning historical time, has no part of the non-human world of the text. Despite this rejection of human concepts, the poem also contains references to the religious motifs.

This seems to align with Genesis and imagine a prelapsarian state of becoming, of complete harmony and immortality. It is therefore a state even before identity, because it has not yet been articulated what the parameters of that would be. This means, it is a state before definition through human language and a logocentric image of the self.

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This position before is neither present, nor past, nor future, but a state of continuous preparation, akin to a primordial time, in which beings are preparing to come into existence. According to a psychoanalytical perspective, the process of becoming a conscious person means setting boundaries.

At a young age, an infant cannot differentiate between him- or herself and surrounding objects, or as Sigmund Freud would say, between ego-libidio and object-libidio Freud , p. When toddlers learn to differentiate between the self and the other, they learn to see themselves as separate from their environment. Therefore, this time before designates both the state of an individual before self-awareness and the time before humankind was banned from Eden. This is not only the case because it occurs in a poem and the speaker would not exist without words, but because language also affects the symbolic order of the non-fictional world.

Julia Kristeva says, The symbolic order—the order of verbal communication, the paternal order of genealogy—is a temporal order. For the speaking animal, it is the clock of objective time: The temporal transformation on the level of events is mirrored on the level of presentation. In the middle of the poem, the speaker switches to the subjunctive mood Sahl b, ll. Based on these movements, a third shift emerges: In addition, there is no explicit addressee; no sign of an audience within the poem. The poem is constructed as the monolog of a diegetic animal, which is an animal that has an actual place in the diegetic universe and is not only used in a metaphorical way Borgards , p.

Taking the mole as the speaker of the poem gives him a voice, specifically the first-person individuating I. It is possible to read the mole as an allegory for the estrangement from the world through migration, displacement, and exile. Yet, the poem also depicts an actual metamorphosis from a human being into a mole when taken literally.

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Also, human beings are not able to live under the earth like animals and plants can. David marked it as to-read Apr 09, Bart added it Jun 26, Quinten Jiskoot added it Jan 20, Matthias marked it as to-read Jul 26, Aletta marked it as to-read Jul 05, Danny marked it as to-read Sep 23, Joris Rycken marked it as to-read Oct 07, There are no discussion topics on this book yet. Hans Sahl was a poet, critic and novelist. He came from an affluent Jewish background but like many such German Jews he fled Germany due to the Nazis.

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