Exhaustion and Recycling

This paper examines the works of representative modernist authors who have rewritten myth Danaids in a self-reflective way. They reuse certain elements order to address some crucial issues cultural transmission: interpretation, poetic tradition and communication. The argument focuses on recycling as symbol endless historical-philological (Nietzsche) psychological (Freud) interpretations, exhaustion reinvention classical literary (Babits), impossible possibility mediating living voice through telephonic communication (Proust).