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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani almost always comes back to the Ballade des dames du temps jadis. He considers it one of the most beautiful poems in the language and recites its stanzas on Echo and on Joan of Arc1. He dwells on it above all in connection with whiteness: the "queen white as a lily" serves him as an example of feminine beauty conceived as whiteness, and of the purity attached to that colour2. He takes up this image again in sessions devoted to Siegfried and Perceval, to the Grail quest and to redemption3. "Joan, the good maid of Lorraine" and "the snows of yesteryear" also illustrate this theme of white4. He also quotes "Where are the snows of yesteryear" alongside Arthur, Duke of Brittany5. In what he considers Villon's most beautiful poem, he points to the imperfect tense proper to remembrance6. Finally, with Aragon, he gives Villon as an example: the great French authors are almost never aristocrats7.

1. 1L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 5:29
2. 2LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 1:08:29
3. 3L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 39:23
4. 4La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:28:02
5. 5#6 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 20:34
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard ou "L'idéologie dominante"26 Apr 2023 · 27:09
7. 710#5 La figure d'Antigone, telle qu'en elle-même enfin...24 Nov 2021 · 9:08

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.