Exile

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani does not approach exile as a subject in its own right. He comes across it through particular figures. In Rousseau, a refugee and exile on the Île Saint-Pierre, the island becomes an image of nature, a refuge from a civil society of servitude and domination1. Discussing Nerval, he links exile to Hölderlin's question, "Where shall we want to stay?", and to the choice between "nomad or sedentary". He connects to it Baudelaire's swan, escaped onto the paving stones, as well as the melancholy of the shepherd and of the sailor in Tristan, turned towards Ireland2. He dwells above all on the exile of German-speaking Jewish musicians, such as Schoenberg, the Klemperers and Bruno Walter. They gave the highest expression of German identity and were driven out of Germany. He refuses to read this as praise of globalism and sets proletarian internationalism against bourgeois cosmopolitanism3. He also mentions Bartók, exiled in the United States and supported by a commission from Menuhin4.

1. 1« D’un triangle de folie au cœur de la conscience moderne »19 Dec 2014
2. 2#3 Nomade ou sédentaire ? - Le cas Nerval6 Jun 2021
3. 3Musicosophie 10. Les deux Klemperer et Bruno Walter dans Wagner18 Jan 2021
4. 4BARTÓK - LE SON INOUÏ • Pagani Parle Musique13 Jul 2022

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