Bénichou

Paul Bénichou · French writer (1908–2001) · 1908–2001

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani cites Paul Bénichou almost always for a single book, L'École du désenchantement, to which he refers from 2017 to 2021. What he takes from it is the study of a generation of writers left disenchanted after the failure of 18481. According to him, Bénichou describes there the refusal that follows this failure: the withdrawal into the ivory tower2. He also credits him with a study of the Parnassian writers3. Bénichou is not at the centre of the sessions: he serves as a reference for situating other figures. Dominique Pagani thus mentions him in connection with Nerval, in a session on Angélique4, and then in a session on Debussy. He comes back to him in the "Musicosophie" series, first in a session that goes from Lévi-Strauss to Nerval on the subject of music5, then in a session on happiness and unhappiness in music. He also appears in a session devoted to Griaule. The passages give no detailed reading of the book. They mainly link Bénichou to the question of the disenchantment that followed 1848 and of artists withdrawing from political life.

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Who is this?

Paul Bénichou (French:; 19 September 1908 – 14 May 2001) was a French/Algerian writer, intellectual, critic, and literary historian. Bénichou first achieved prominence in 1948 with Morales du grand siècle, his work on the social context of the French seventeenth-century classics. Later Bénichou undertook a prodigious research program, seeking to understand the radical pessimism and disappointment expressed by mid-nineteenth writers. This project resulted in a series of major works, beginning with Le Sacre de l’écrivain, 1750-1830 (1973; Eng. trans. 1999 [The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830]). […]

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