The concept of resurrection presupposes a well-established order of things: life, death, burial, remembrance, and then finally the call to rise again, this time unto eternity. The structure of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 mostly follows that order. But what happens when there’s a fundamental disturbance, even breakdown in this arrangement? When a decent death and burial are rendered impossible because the body is depersonalized, even dehumanized, reduced to a putrid pile of cadavers impiously dumped into a hole?
Unlimited access to our
