Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Salome's Bloody Baptism
Salomé, Psychotic, Neurotic, Perverse
https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/salom%C3%A9-psychotic-neurotic-perverse-94545d7cb0ea
Salome is a real case in literature, and in
the Jewish and Christian traditions. She is the most neurotic
obsessive-compulsive sex-addicted female individual. Oscar wilde made her a
monstrous genius able to challenge a whole society or even world with just
seven veils and a saber. She is a psychotic terrorist and she attracts people
who love feeling sick in front of excessive horror, like vomitting in the
gutter when voraciously watching.a road accident with "a few"
victims.
This here (October 11, 2023) file contains first the article published in the Cahiers Victoriens et Edwardiens, eight pages, and then the original article that is about twenty pages long. I prefer the original because the formating of articles in university journals is absurd and they do not seem to change with e-publications or e-journals, or they stick so hard to paper printing that they get marginalized, even in University libraries, at least by quite a few students.
Salome, an Obsessive Compulsive Myth, from Oscar Wilde to Richard Strauss
2010,
Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens
2
Files https://journals.openedition.org/cve/2730
https://doi.org/10.4000/cve.2730
Mythology,
* Literature, * German,
* Monster,
* Historical Studies
Publisher: Presses
Universitaires de la Méditerranée
Publication
Date: Dec 4, 2010
Publication
Name: Cahiers Victoriens & Edouardiens
ORIGINAL
ABSTRACT No female character, more than Salome,
carries in herself so much power to debunk and rebut any establishment. Salome
is deranged by an obsessive compulsive disorder that leads her to touch
everything she desires, repeat things over and over again and count things
around her. Oscar Wilde uses these elements to create in French, and then in
English in his own translation of the play, a style conveying and expressing
these traits. Salome is the archetypical monster in Christianity. She provokes
Herod, John himself and everyone else around her and pushes them to the extreme
limits of decency. And yet she is killed like a plain outlaw by some soldier on
Herod’s order. This exploration of the relation between Salome and John the
Baptist leads to a deep reflection on the value of life when it is entirely
dominated by obsessive carnal desires. That also leads to an end that looks
like some form of expiatory justice. Richard Strauss amplifies the text and the
subject with his music and his German libretto.
