Hergé

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Hergé only occasionally, through references to the Tintin albums that illustrate a point in the course of the sessions. He twice quotes the phrase from Tintin in the Congo, "the hand of the white man has not set foot". He does so first in a session devoted to Adotevi and negritude1, then as a joke in a session on Nietzsche and Wagner2. In The Blue Lotus, he points to the episode in which the Japanese stage a railway incident, which they blame on Chinese terrorists to justify the war3. Referring to Land of Black Gold, he compares himself to Thomson and Thompson facing a mirage in the desert4. In a session on worldliness in Clouscard, he mentions the prophet Philippulus from The Shooting Star as a figure of the prophet of doom. He offers no sustained reading of the work: he borrows images and phrases from Hergé.

1. 1Négritude et négrologues / Adotevi par Pagani (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 43:01
2. 2Musicosophie 12. Nietzsche (tout) contre Wagner28 Jan 2021 · 41:26
3. 3#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 2:32:19
4. 4Le voyage de la fanfare - de Dominique Memmi6 Dec 2019 · 55:19

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.