Opera's Second Death

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leads you backstage into places opera don't know
Opera is perhaps the most perfect subject for Zizek's gaze with Hegelian negations and Absolutes Lacan's "object petit a,"Four Discourses" in the Master Signifier, the divided self,desire, don't be scared away for the cloistered world of opera can use such insights to help clarify its own anxieties self-indulgences and excesses throughout its histories. In fact opera now cannot live without someone speaking about it deeply as Zizek does, especially the self-conscious dimensions in Wagner's dramas, the negations of the negations(from Hegel) as "Parsifal" a redeemer redeeming the redemption,or dealing with "Other" those aspects that we wish we could do without but are there anyways, like feminist extremism not wanting man to be around,as in Carmen, or Tosca, or Wotan not wanting to be responsible for his pacts carved on his staff. Zizek and Dolar both bring a formidable array of concepts to opera to make some illuminations clearer I think. If you simply want opera to go on as it is without comment, simply sit back and let it wash over your brain, well this is not a book for you.


Opera on the Couch
With those which like the opera and knows nothing about psycho-analyzes or of philosophy this book will be provocative and probably incomprehensible. Always, if no matter who can finish by a queen opera thinking, it could be Slavoj Zizek and Mladen Dolar. Dolar is a more conventional and more complete treatment of the history of the opera like history of the ideas. It is excellent and one can almost read the notes copiers like separate and also pleasant experiment. Zizek employs particular operas to explain major and attractive ideas about the love and death, the narcissism and the art of the car-portrait-destruction, by the ideas (between others) of Lacan and Hegel. Since the seminal books of Zizek explaining complexities of Lacan and Hegel by the popular entertainment it has the fame increased in the intellectual circles without never becoming pompeux or sufficient. It makes for pleasant and the provocative reading and chances are, after you read it, will enpêcheront you to enter an eye for its next book.



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