Adamov

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani speaks of Arthur Adamov as a friend and presents him as the third name of the theatre of the absurd, a major playwright forgotten because he joined the Communist Party in 195612. He returns above all to M. le Modéré, whose title plays on "M le Maudit": the play shows the obsession with moderation and targets what he calls the "extreme centre", a golden mean that causes millions of deaths34. He also cites Sainte Europe, which he would like to see back on theatre programmes and which portrays European construction as a new Holy Alliance; in 2020, he takes up its title to speak of Europe facing the epidemic5. He reads La Politique des restes, in which an Afrikaner obsessed with leftovers is unknowingly haunted by the Black workers who are his own substance6. He also shares personal memories: he used to read Les Filles du feu to Adamov to calm him, he read him an aphorism by Hölderlin that Adamov then took up in his anthology of violent poetry, and Adamov is his source for the account of the meeting between Heidegger and Husserl.

1. 1Adamov (Arthur)18 Feb 2016 · 10:55
2. 2D. Pagani / Réponse de M. Clouscard à C. Morilhat (1987)23 Aug 2019 · 1:37:40
3. 3Cynisme de l'extrême centre ou héroïsme épistémique ? La dialectique du milieu • Dominique Pagani20 May 2021 · 21:12
4. 4L'après scrutin - Entrée en zone de turbulences11 Jul 2024 · 35:09
5. 5Dominique Pagani - Hölderlin, poésie et politique19 Mar 2022 · 16:11
6. 6Dominique Pagani sur Michel Clouscard - Les chemins de la praxis 2/28 Dec 2015 · 38:32

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