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Gesamtkunstwerk.(Das Nibelungenlied)(Book review)
Anonymous Das Nibelungenlied, translated by Burton Raffel. Yale University Press, 351 pages, $40
If you want to enjoy the Song of the Nibelungs, you must try to do one thing: forget Wagner. His music drama Der Ring der Nibelungen is such an overwhelming aesthetic experience--he was only slightly exaggerating when he claimed to have composed a Gesamtkunstwerk, a "total work of art'--that it has inevitably eclipsed the medieval saga on which it was based.
Yet Das Nibelungenlied is a remarkable work of art in its own right. Among medieval epics, it occupies the first rank, transcending even Beowulf and the Chanson de Roland in complexity and emotional ...
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