This classic text by Hugo von Hofmannsthal on the crisis of language, classified within bartleby literature, goes beyond a lack of speech and touch key issues in contemporary thought, which in turn refers to a thought as old as the Eastern religions. In the center of the harrowing world, the language is in crisis in order to discover another reality, another language, another crisis ... Editing Joseph J. Olaneta includes a brief but substantial Approach to Lord Chandos Letter of Friedrich Th Widerberg, which leave some excerpts: Crisis
language
A partial and fragmentary truth may sometimes with outright and crushing sense of all in a context of confusion, and only with time and the gradual development of other aspects of the personality takes its true dimensions and occupy its place on the harmony of knowledge. The evidence is then supplemented discourse in a paradoxical balance, with no language ability and to enclose and exhaust the truth, but to indicate the direction in which the eye must be directed.
Disintegration of self
The collapse of the world of words inevitably involves the breakdown of self, the fictional construction by which each is represented with a greater or less of self-belief, the character who seems to have fallen to his lot in society and that there is definitely more than an accumulation of words, ideas more or less precarious than a silent attention, relentless in its waiver of any prior commitment - pre-trial, in the literal sense of the term, it dissolves more or less explosive: "I do not even know if I'm still the same person."
transmutation of reality
the look that turns to the world no longer routinely determined by the mental habits and prejudices of the "already known" opens a new perspective to the collection: reality acquires a new dimension as a flat image you add a stereo vision unobserved relationships before manifest to the eye, giving to things and beings a different value.
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