Edgar Poe

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Poe mainly as the intellectual master of Baudelaire, who translated him and made him known in France, and of Mallarmé's school1. He often comes back to Mallarmé's "Tombeau" for Poe, which he links to Poe's death in Baltimore and to a poetry that America reduced to a drunkard's talk, although this speech purifies words2. He follows "The Purloined Letter" closely: the diverted letter, delayed indefinitely, whose contents nobody knows. He compares it to Kafka's "An Imperial Message" and to Lacan's reading34. He also reads "The Domain of Arnheim," with its landscape garden where everything is thought out yet looks natural, and its line that "he who has death in his heart" avoids distant perspectives5. He attributes to Poe the phrase "Anywhere out of the world," taken up by Baudelaire, and connects it to a desire that can only be satisfied outside this world6. Finally, he notes that Poe founded the detective genre and describes an abstract painting in "The Fall of the House of Usher."

1. 1#3.5 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 19:40
2. 2#2.2 Entre crise et guerre : Philosopher ?15 Feb 2016 · 46:20
3. 3#5.9 Kafka Un message impérial29 Jul 2019 · 10:18
4. 4Musicosophie 17. L'interprétation25 Mar 2021 · 1:21:49
5. 5Chateaubriand26 Mar 2019 · 22:41
6. 6La mondanité chez Clouscard : Désirer quoi ? Par qui ??3 Sept 2023 · 1:00:22

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