Sappho

work by Grillparzer

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In Franz Grillparzer
…was the swiftly written tragedy Sappho (1818). Here the tragic fate of Sappho, who is depicted as heterosexual, is attributed to her unhappy love for an ordinary man and to her inability to reconcile life and art, clearly an enduring problem for Grillparzer. Work on the trilogy Das Goldene Vlies…
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