Dostoïevski

What Dominique Pagani says

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. 1L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 12:22
2. 2La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 37:33
3. 3Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 2:10:33
4. 4#15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:12:32
5. 5#15 Nietzsche : Pertinence philosophique ou musicale ? Réponses aux questions23 Jun 2022 · 1:32:05
6. 6#4 Bien-et Mé-faits de l'amnésie...13 Nov 2020 · 1:29:52
7. 79 #11 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?7 Jan 2021 · 1:32:51

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