Turandot's challenge to men is at an intellectual level, through that logos which traditionally is the privileged terrain of men, and by tradition the woman is recognized as ground overlooking the feeling: 's eros.
A woman who dared to humiliate the man with the thought! We even beyond feminism and only a princess (a superior in rank) can afford it. In retaliation the man down on his own ground and defeats him. But we also know that Turandot is actually a deeply wounded woman and her eros is frozen.
The theme of the puzzles is not new in the myths, just think of Oedipus, which meets on his journey to the Sphinx. Have solved the riddle Oedipus assures the hand of Queen and the throne of Thebes, with all that follows ... Oedipus took the riddle proposed by the Sphinx to the letter down to a "riddle" and not understanding the nature of the problem before him: the search for his true identity and the unveiling of the mystery of his birth. Read what James Hillman says about "Oedipus had a first opportunity to practice psychology with the Sphinx's ear, and instead listens to her as if it were a riddle, as if he raised a question. L 'listen with the ear heroic. "I shut my mouth" (Storr, v. 397). "solved the riddle with my own understanding" (Grene, v. 398). In this passage, Oedipus boosts its position heroic speaking of himself in person as it has done hitherto rarely in the text. Close the mouth of the Sphinx, which is another way to plug their ears, is a gesture full of meaning for which the chorus praises him in the last verses of the tragedy: "Look at this Oedipus / she knew the famous riddles and was the most valent among men "(vv. 1524-1525). For the most valiant man, a conundrum becomes a problem to be solved by vanquish. In addition, a ainigma , as observed by Marie Delcourt, refers to " everything has a double meaning: symbols, oracles, called Pythagoreans sapienzali ..." A puzzle is like a mantra or koan or a gnome Heraclitean to take with you and learn from, the Sphinx as a symbol on a rock hard, put on a column to be revered, not thrown in the bottom of a cliff "(J. Hillman," Variations on the Oedipus " , ed. Cortina, 1992, pp. 103-104).
Calaf We will see that will not make the same mistake of Oedipus, which is to think you've now solved it all and enjoy the fruit of the alleged victory.
The comparison of Turandot with the Sphinx is not random, because, beyond the beauty, even in Turandot, impenetrable and hard as jade, unrelenting and cold as a sword, lurks a kind of monstrous, complex and higher-level, more important and powerful than a simple woman. It is, in relation to the myth of the hero, dragon and princess at the same time: one who poses the question of death and the prize of the solution. also raise issues that the puzzles are obviously important, because in fairy tales, as in dreams, nothing is random and should also pay attention to detail. While the Sphinx Oedipus presents a unique puzzle-centered, Turandot it requires the solution of three, in a wonderful crescendo: the solutions are the hope, blood, and, as the last, his very name. As you can see, there are random problems and primarily concern herself more than the challenger, because that frozen without hope, without an attitude that prevents blood flow faster with the emotions, but also alienated from the founding principle of the feminine and therefore alien to itself and reduced to only as "rank" and therefore formal, it's her. Turandot is as if the prince had put the puzzle itself, research that she can not do because the victim of resentment already petrified by the defense.
Oversimplified, the Sphinx asked Oedipus: "Who are you?" While Turandot asks: "Who am I?". It is always possible, at bottom, the riddle of his own genuine identity.
Click here for the text of "Stranger, listen."
TURANDOTStranger, listen:
"In the dark night flies an iridescent phantom.
Salt and explains the wings on the black infinite humanity.
Worldwide invoking the prayer and the whole world.
But the ghost disappears coll'aurora
to be reborn in the heart .
And every night is born and dies every day! "
CALAF
Yes! Reborn! Reborn in exultation
me away with him, Turandot: Hope!
THE WISE
Hope! Hope! Hope!
TURANDOT
Yes, the hope that always disappoints!
"Guizza like a flame, and is not flame.
is sometimes delirium. It is a rush fever and fervor!
inertia it turns into a languor.
If you lose or pass away, it cools.
If you dream of conquest, flares, glows!
has a tremulous voice that you listen, and
the vivid glow of the sunset! "
EMPEROR
Look out, stranger!
PEOPLE
is for life! Speak!
Look out, stranger! Speak!
LIÙ
and love!
CALAF
Yes, Princess! flares and set langue,
if you look at me in my veins: Blood!
THE WISE
The Blood! The Blood! The Blood!
PEOPLE
Courage, melter of puzzles!
TURANDOT
Strike those cowards!
"Ice which gives fire and ice takes more from your fire!
Candida and dark! If you want to make you free a slave. If t'accetta
servant, makes you king! "
, stranger, you bleach the fear
And you feel lost!
, stranger, giving the cold fire, what is it?
CALAF
The My victory gave you to me now!
My fire will thaw: Turandot!
THE WISE
Turandot! Turandot! Turandot!
PEOPLE
Turandot! Turandot!
Glory, glory, or winner!
you smile life! Do you love the smile!
Ten thousand years to our Emperor!
Light, ruler of the world!
| E. Marton, J. Carreras | M. Caballé, L. Pavarotti |
| G. Dimitrova, P. Domingo | M. Dragoni, G. Tieppo |
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