Jules Janin

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Jules Janin mainly as an addressee, at the crossroads of two literary affairs. The first concerns Nerval: Janin had written a biographical notice about him believing him dead, or at least asserting that he must be12. Yet it is to him that Nerval addresses the Strasbourg letter in which he says he has recovered his voice on the banks of the Rhine3, and it is to him that he dedicates Lorely2. He returns to this letter several times, from 2016 to 2021, in the sessions on Angélique and on "the Nerval case." The second affair concerns Baudelaire: he presents Janin as a famous critic who complains about unhappy, morose and melancholy poets and mocks the poetry of spleen. This text provokes Baudelaire's anger, and Baudelaire writes him a draft letter45. He recalls this episode in varied contexts, including a session devoted to Nietzsche and Wagner and another on worldliness in Clouscard.

1. 1#4.2 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Nov 2017 · 8:59
2. 2#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 28:30
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:04:52
4. 4#3 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude4 Apr 2020 · 1:04:36
5. 5La mondanité chez Clouscard - Le choc des mondes ?9 Jul 2023 · 9:56

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.