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  • Chapter 7 - Varieties of Modernism: Orpheus and Eurydice

  • from Part IV - Love, Seduction, Death
  • Martin M. Winkler, George Mason University, Virginia
  • Book:
    Ovid on Screen
    Published online:
    27 January 2020
    Print publication:
    30 January 2020, pp 253-270

  • Summary

    Chapter 7 introduces a new topic, dealt with in three chapters: Ovid as author of erotic literature. Love and seduction, love and death are the two overarching themes. Chapter 7 is on one of Ovid’s most famous tale: the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. An overview of its pervasive presence on screen introduces the chapter, which then examines two postmodern variations in greater detail. Both are modernizations. Helmut Dietl’s film Vom Suchen und Finden der Liebe (its English-release title is rather clumsy: “About the Looking for and the Finding of Love”) is a witty but also bittersweet and partly supernatural retelling of a couple’s doomed love. In a striking role reversal the man dies, and the woman attempts to get him back from the Underworld. By contrast, American writer-director Paul Auster’s The Inner Life of Martin Frost presents a complex narrative with various twists and an indeterminate, if haunting, ending. If, in Dietl’s film, love may (or may not) conquer all, does it even exist in Auster’s?