The alchemist in literature: from Dante to the present
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Literature
From Dante to the Present
THEODORE ZIOLKOWSKI
OXFORD
UNIVERSITY PRESS
Contents
List of Figures xiii
1 Introduction, or Materia Prima 1
2 Satirizations, or Nigredo 16
3 Romanticizations, or Cauda Pavonis 62
4 Mid-Century Adaptations, or Albedo 103
5 Poeticizations, or Fermentatio 124
6 Spiritualizations, or Rubedo 149
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7 Popularizations, or Projectio 188
8 Conclusion, or Quinta Essentia 229
Index 233
Unlike most other studies of alchemy and literature, which focus on alchemical imagery
in poetry of specific periods or writers, this book traces the figure of the alchemist in
Western literature from its first appearance in the Eighth Circle of Dante s Inferno down
to the present. From the beginning alchemy has had two aspects: exoteric or operative
(the transmutation of baser metals into gold) and esoteric or speculative (the spiritual
transformation of the alchemist himself). From Dante to Ben Jonson, during the centuries
when the belief in exoteric alchemy was still strong and exploited by many charlatans to
deceive the gullible, writers in major works of many literatures treated alchemists with
ridicule in an effort to expose their tricks. From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment,
as that beiiefweakened, the figure of the alchemist disappeared, even though Protestant
poets in England and Germany were still fond of alchemical images. But when eighteenth-
century science almost wholly undermined alchemy, the figure of the alchemist began
to emerge again in literature—now as a humanitarian hero or as a spirit striving for
sublimation. Following these esoteric romanticizations, as scholarly interest in alchemy
intensified, writers were attracted to the figure of the alchemist and his quest for power.
The fin-de-siecle saw a further transformation as poets saw in the alchemist a symbol
for the poet per se and others, influenced by the prevailing spiritism, as a manifestation
of the religious spirit. During the interwar years, as writers sought surrogates for the
widespread loss of religious faith, esoteric alchemy underwent a pronounced revival,
and many writers turned to the figure of the alchemist as a spiritual model or, in the
case of Paracelsus in Germany, as a national figurehead. This tendency, theorized by
C, G. Jung in several major studies, inspired after World War II a vast popularization of
the figure in novels—historical, set in the present, or juxtaposing past and present— in
England, France, Germany, Italy, Brazil, and the United States. The inevitable result of
this popularization was the trivialization of the figure in advertisements for healing and
cooking or in articles about scientists and economists. In sum: the figure of the alchemist
in literature provides a seismograph for major shifts in intellectual and cultural history.
Theodore Ztolkowski is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature
at Princeton University.
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