Los rostros de LuluDe Frank Wedekind a Lou Reed

  1. Pompeyo Pérez Díaz 1
  2. Cristo Gil Díaz 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Laguna.
Journal:
El Genio Maligno: revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales

ISSN: 1988-3927

Year of publication: 2016

Issue Title: Ilusión

Issue: 18

Type: Article

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Abstract

Frank Wedekind (1864-1928) wrote his most noted plays, Earth Spirit (1895) and Pandora´s Box (1904), as a way to show his personal point of view about Sensuality and Erotism. He considerated them as forces from Nature, in some way incompatibles with bourgeois moral and its principles. He created Lulu as a character that embodies a «natural» Femininity with all the power related to this idea. She is an amoral person, and has a prominent ability to be potentially destructive. However, she is not a femme fatale in the European fin de siècle way, but a different and complex archetype that we will try to describe. This paper compares the original plays by Wedekind with the film Pandora´s Box (1929) by Georg W. Pabst and the opera Lulu (1935) by Alban Berg. Additionally, we look at subsequent appearences of Lulu in works by Angela Carter and Lou Reed.

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