Dostoïevski

Summary

Dominique Pagani returns mainly to The Idiot, which he repeatedly compares with Wagner's Parsifal: the two works were written in the same period, without any coordination, which in his view shows that something is happening at the heart of modernity12. He notes that Nietzsche discovered Dostoevsky at the end of his life3. He presents the Idiot as a figure who turns the other cheek and, from a Nietzschean point of view, as the example of a stammering decadent45. He also mentions the novel's restless characters, who jump from one emergency to the next while searching for what they forget6, as well as its opening in a train, a set piece of the Russian novel. Several times he quotes the line from The Brothers Karamazov, "if God does not exist, everything is permitted," which he links to a moral and physical decentring7. He counts him among those who came close to Freudian discourse and connects him to the Slavophile current. When he speaks about Europe and Ukraine, he names him among the great Russian novelists and among the Russians who are Europeans.

1. 1Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 12:22
2. 2The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?1 Apr 2024 · 37:33
3. 3#12 Nietzsche (right up) against Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 2:10:33
4. 4#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:12:32
5. 5#15 Nietzsche: philosophical or musical relevance? Answers to questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:32:05
6. 6#4 Benefits and harms of amnesia…13 Nov 2020 · 1:29:52
7. 7#9.11 How can sciences of history be real?7 Jan 2021 · 1:32:51

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