Apollinaire

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Apollinaire mainly through poems from Alcools, which he recites or comments on during his sessions. He returns several times to "Nuit rhénane". He sees it as an example of how fruitful the Lorelei myth is1. He dwells on the green-haired women of the Rhine and remarks that nothing stands upright in this text, where everything falls, trembling2. For him, Alcools and "Nuit rhénane" mediate between the avant-gardes of the late nineteenth century and surrealism3. He also quotes "Signe", with the line "Mon automne éternelle ô ma saison mentale" and the leaves that appear in it as the hands of lovers4. In "La Chanson du mal-aimé" he picks out "Mon beau navire, ô ma mémoire" and links it to Baudelaire: evening there is the time of memories5. Finally, he notes in Apollinaire, as in Aragon, an archaizing return to the ballad6.

1. 1#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 57:11
2. 2#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 1:35:00
3. 3Chateaubriand26 Mar 2019 · 12:02
4. 4Musicosophie 6. La Variation Jazz... de Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 1:49:22
5. 5Et le sujet dans tout ça ? Hölderlin, Mallarmé et Baudelaire28 Sept 2022 · 1:16:19
6. 6Musicosophie 15. Platon, Rouseau, Hegel et la musique9 Feb 2021 · 1:14:14

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.