Etudes Germaniques N° 265, 4/2011 - Année Kleist En France - Colloques De Paris Et De Metz (Octobre Et Décembre 2011)

Jean-Marie VALENTIN, ??e??as?a, spa?a?µ??, ?µ?fa??a. Kleist, Penthésilée et le retour du dionysiaque euripidienThis article deals in the first place with the philosophical interpretation of the tragic by Schelling and its consequences for the evaluation of the attic trias in order to define more precisely the dionisism (Nietzsche) of Kleist's Penthesilea. Kleist, who for a long time combined Shakespeare with Sophocles, turns in 1807 towards Euripides as did Hölderlin previously. The Bachnae are his reference and goes back to the three categories illustrated by the tragikotatos : ??e??as?a, spa?a?µ?? and ?µ?fa??a. Kleist, who unlike Hölderlin didn't read Greek, resorted to a translation of the original. Through some examples of the translation by Friedrich Heinrich Bothe, who read some extracts in Dresden, the article shows the importance of this relation in the constitution of a competing model to Goethe's one in Ipihigenie : it concerns the language, the dramatic structure and the vis