Lorelei

Summary

Dominique Pagani refers to the Lorelei as the fairy, or nixie, of the Rhine rock whose irresistible song lures the boatmen and wrecks their boats12. In a session on Nerval's Angélique, he links her to "the eternal myth of the siren," which he calls a myth of the edge3. She comes back in other sessions on Nerval, on the nomad and the sedentary or on Nerval and Baudelaire. There he stresses her ambivalence: she is a woman who is both alluring and dangerous4. He also mentions her in connection with music. In a "Musicosophie" session on Schubert, he cites the Schumann lied in which she bewitches a knight and dooms him to wander5. From 2018 to 2021 his description stays the same: the song, the rock, the wreck of the Rhine's sailors. He uses her as a mythical figure that he connects to the siren, to Nerval's poetry and to the Romantic lied.

1. 1#8 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:03:22
2. 2#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 1:34:38
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 57:11
4. 49 #24 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Nerval • Baudelaire • 2ème partie30 Jun 2021 · 37:41
5. 5Musicosophie 1. Schubert et les maîtres chanteurs3 Dec 2020 · 22:39

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.