'La morte di Danton' di Georg Büchner: a proposito di letteratura, menzogna e falsificazione

Georg Büchner’s historical-philosophical play, Danton’s Death (1835), lends itself to an examination of the concept of lying and counterfeiting in the literary context on at least three levels: a first level, which I will illustrate by referencing the publishing problems surrounding the first edition of the work, concerns the text as a physical, linguistic, semantically-endowed product; a second level, pertaining to the writer’s poetics, involves the nature of literature and its relation to external reality; a third level is more properly poetic and has to do with lying and falsehood as issues that run throughout the whole text.