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This essay examines the relationships between literature and science with respect to twentieth-century lunar exploration, demonstrating how difficult it can be to distinguish between literary and scientific knowledge; decisive events in the history of human knowledge frequently occur along the boundary between the two. After considering literary representations of the moon from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Jules Verne, and Italo Calvino, this essay concentrates on a multimedia project by the German poet and artist Ferdinand Kriwet concerned with the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing. Kriwet’s multimedia project engages simultaneously with scientific and literary forms of knowledge, implying that the moon’s literary status as an object of longing may not be exhausted by its scientific conquest, after all. |
