Odette

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani always discusses Odette de Crécy through Swann, whose object of love she is. In a session on quality, he notes that Swann loves her for one specific quality: the tea she knows how to prepare1. In a session that runs from Kafka to Proust, he places her socially as a demi-mondaine from a lower social milieu than Swann's2. Above all, he returns to the moment when Swann senses that he has lost her, and then understands it. He speaks of this in connection with the benefits and harms of amnesia3, and later in a musicosophy session on Romantic irony and the Vinteuil sonata4. Discussing Schubert, he highlights the paradox of a love that grows as it stops being returned: Odette no longer loves Swann, and he is all the more in love with her5. In these passages, Odette is less a subject in her own right than a point of support for analysing Swann's love and its loss.

1. 1Q comme Qualité31 Dec 2014 · 7:52
2. 2#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 1:16:18
3. 3#1 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...8 Oct 2020 · 1:16:43
4. 4Musicosophie 9. Ironie romantique et sonate de Vinteuil15 Jan 2021 · 1:00:26
5. 5SCHUBERT - LES CAPTIVES DIVINES • Pagani Parle Musique3 Aug 2022 · 3:57

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