Eugène Sue

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Eugène Sue mainly as a figure of the serial novel. He lists him among the authors of the genre1 and above all remembers Les Mystères de Paris, whose enormous success with a broad popular readership he stresses several times2. He presents him as a writer who lives off serial fiction3 and whose livelihood is threatened by an amendment aimed at this form of publication4. He links this readership to a specific political moment: in his view, Sue's readers are the very people who end up on the barricades. He returns to this idea in 2020, in the interview introducing the future workshops, speaking of a public that was "rumbling" on the barricades5. The passages are brief. He does not read Sue closely: he uses him, especially in the sessions devoted to Nerval's Angélique, as a reference point for placing the press, the readership and the material conditions of writing at that time.

1. 1Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 50:16
2. 2#4.2 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Nov 2017 · 41:21
3. 3#4.6 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 5:05
4. 4Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 1:08:18
5. 5L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 16:50

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.