person
Sonja
also: Sonja
A female figure addressed in a poem of Sebastian im Traum — possibly based on a real acquaintance or a poetic projection. Sonja appears in a world of sickness and pale light, part of Trakl's gallery of doomed, luminous feminine figures.
Reading notes
- Sebastian in Dream §18 Sonja
Sonja is the name Trakl gives to the prostitute-figure in 'The Damned'; borrowing a Slavic name recalls Dostoevsky's Sonya Marmeladova in Crime and Punishment — innocent despite her degradation.