(Auto)ritratti di dèi decaduti: "Die Götter im Exil" di Heinrich Heine
Journal: SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología
Year: 2021

This essay aims to enlighten the motiv “exile” in Heinrich Heine’s Die Götter im Exil both politically as well as psychologically. ‘The Gods in Exile” offers an uncanny, yet satirical scenario, in which the author identifies himself with figures of fallen Greek-Roman gods, outlining a sort of ‘polytheistic self-portrait’. After considering the fall of his political ideals and the rise of the disease, each exiled-god is analysed as a symbol of Heine’s inner laceration, whereas their exile is even