p20It is not that Toscanini highlights only the melody (as Adorno charged) but that each of the measures of the score is realized with a taut inevitability suggesting the expressivity of pure forward movement that seems to be making only provisional or convenient use of music, rather than communicating the orchestral equivalent of shaped phrasings that derive from the human voice.What Toscanini seems to me to be doing here is trying to force into prominence, or perhaps enforce, the utterly contrary quality of the performance occasion, its total discontinuity with the ordinary, regular, or normative processes of everyday life.No wonder that Adorno preferred a Furtw\"angler for whom the performance of, say, the Bruckner or Schubert Ninth symphonies was felt to derive from his private, …—— 引自第34页
p38In the most offensive of his Le Soir articles (March 4, 1941) de Man says that “one thus sees that a solution of the Jewish problem which would aim at the creation of a Jewish colony isolated from Europe, would not entail deplorable consequences for the literary life of the West.''None of the commentators I have read glosses one especially sinister resonance in the phrase “the creation of a Jewish colony isolated from Europe.''You do not have to be a Palestinian to known that in 1941 there already was a Jewish colony outside Europe, already the locale of conflict between native Palestinians and incoming Zionist settlers, already the topic of an enormous amount of international jurisprudential, rhetorical, political, religious, and other controversy.For me, to read de Man's rem…—— 引自第62页
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