Fasolt

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Fasolt in the series "How can sciences of history be real?", between January and February 2021. He first sees him as the giant who claims the agreed wage and reproaches the gods, the "sons of light", for breaking the contract1. In his reading, Fasolt thus carries the wage claim. But he also presents him as the "sentimental giant", unable to detach himself from Freia2. He dwells on the scene in which Fasolt still glimpses Freia's gaze through a gap in the gold heaped up to replace her3. He then notes that Fasolt is killed by his brother Fafner4. A few weeks later, he returns to the same figure: the sentimental giant, unhappy at having to give up Freia5. From one session to the next, he thus holds together two traits of the character: he claims what he is owed in the name of the contract, and he remains attached to the woman he must exchange for the gold.

1. 19 #12 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?14 Jan 2021 · 1:37:36
2. 29 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 49:06
3. 39 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 53:42
4. 49 #13 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?29 Jan 2021 · 59:54
5. 59 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 18:16

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