George Sand

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions George Sand only occasionally and does not read her work closely. He brings her up mainly in connection with Alfred de Musset, for whom she was the great love1. He returns several times to this unhappy love, in sessions on Leibniz, on Nerval and on the logics of the subject2. In 2023, while reading Kleist, he adds that she caused Musset's great sorrow by being unfaithful to him with an Italian doctor3. She also appears as Flaubert's correspondent, in the context of his critique of the Commune, which Pagani discusses in a broadcast on Michel Clouscard4. Finally, in a session on feminism, femininity, Molière and Wagner, he names her among the influential women of Romanticism and recalls that Baudelaire called her "la femme Sand" (the Sand woman)5. In what he says, she remains tied to other nineteenth-century figures rather than to her own writings.

1. 1#16 • Retour aux logiques du sujet30 Jul 2020 · 1:12:33
2. 2Leibniz1 Aug 2017 · 1:23:43
3. 3Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 25:31
4. 4Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 16 Jul 2012 · 26:17
5. 5Le féminisme des privilégiés, censure puritaine de la féminité - Molière, Clouscard, Wagner6 Feb 2022 · 11:51

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