Homère

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani sees Homer as a figure about whom little is known, an individual or a collective, the first to write down an oral tradition already sung by the rhapsodes, those "binders" of songs who stitched formulas together12. He stresses that in Homer poetry and music are not separate: a sung speech, accompanied on the lyre, which opens with the invocation to the muse, as with the griots3. He also notes the absence of any individual detail in the Iliad and the Odyssey. He returns above all to the Odyssey, the matrix of Western literature: in his view it is not a happy ending, since it lies between two slaughters, the sack of Troy and the massacre of the suitors, which he links to the repetition compulsion45. Lastly, he makes it the model for the journey in Nerval's Angélique, a loop bent between Ilion and Ithaca6, and points to echoes in Ronsard, Nietzsche and Wagner.

1. 1Mythologie et Vérité8 Aug 2015 · 6:59
2. 2Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 1:10:50
3. 3Griaule (Marcel)18 Oct 2017 · 5:57
4. 49 #15 Comment des sciences de l'histoire peuvent-elles être réelles?18 Feb 2021 · 53:26
5. 5#12 De Kafka à Proust, le passage dialectique de l’intermezzo au bord perpétué7 Apr 2022 · 20:23
6. 69 #23 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Bach • Nerval • Lévi-Strauss9 Jun 2021 · 2:19:31

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