Friedrich Schlegel's "Lucinde", or the Early Romanticism's experimental novel

Abstract

The article attempts to clarify the experimental novel status attributed to Friedrich Schlegel's opus Lucinde, advancing an interpretation that places it within the general framework of the aesthetic proposal of Early German Romanticism. In order to do this, it develops an analysis of the contents of Lucinde, following the thread of the progressive-universal-Poesie and its literary-philosophical program that characterized the authors of the so-called School of Jena.