Chrétien de Troyes

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns above all to Perceval, or the Story of the Grail. He presents Chrétien de Troyes as the first to use the word Grail, whose origin is unknown, and as the one who inaugurates the Matter of Britain, perhaps the founder of poetry in the French language1. He places his romances at the moment when the kingdom is being pacified: the hero becomes the lover and there is a shift to courtly love2. In his view, the Grail then marks the final stage of interiorisation, that of divine love, although this Grail is not yet Christianised: it is a luminous dish linked to food34. He often reads the episode of the three drops of blood on the snow, where Perceval "is nothing but gaze"5, and connects it to the dichotomy of red and white, all the way to Hegel6. He dwells on the question Perceval does not ask, which he explains by guilt towards his mother7. He also links the work to Nerval and to Wagner, for whom it is the main source.

1. 1LES APORIES DE L’ANTHROPOLOGIE23 Nov 2022 · 42:00
2. 2Proust30 Jan 2020 · 57:45
3. 3L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 7:16
4. 4L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:05:02
5. 5L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 15:45
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le monde comme "ruse de la raison"22 Jul 2023 · 58:45
7. 7La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 1:42:34

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