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Digression

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Series · 23 Mar 2020Interview with Dominique Pagani: Introduction to the upcoming workshops

24:14The void left by the unfindable book opens a space of creation made of detours and digressions.
40:24Nerval breaks the author-reader contract and excuses himself by preterition, which aggravates the effect he claims to minimize.

Season 4 · 12 Nov 2017#4.2 Angélique (by Nerval)

36:12In the ordinary sense, a suspension of the plot; in Nerval, each digression is accompanied by apologies to the reader.
43:09Failing to find the book, the digression becomes almost the essential thing: an anti-novel.