Lamartine

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani treats the Méditations poétiques of 1820 as the official date of the beginning of French Romanticism in the strict sense, at a time when the German Romantics were already dead1. He often returns to L'Isolement: for him, "Tristement je m'assieds" ("Sadly I sit down") sums up all of Romanticism, the feeling and the act of sitting down, the sign of a tired generation2. He finds the poem fluent and admirable, but in it one sees nothing precise3. He contrasts this chosen solitude of the Romantic aristocrat with that of Rousseau, who was cut off from the company of men4. He associates Lamartine with the voluptuousness of melancholy, then in fashion, which he distinguishes from Baudelairean spleen5. He considers him graver than Musset and closer to Racine than to Rimbaud. He recalls his political commitment as head of the provisional government in 1848 and his journey to the Orient. Finally, he quotes the line "Un seul être vous manque et tout est dépeuplé" ("One single being is missing and the whole world is empty") to shed light on Clouscard's solitude6.

1. 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 15:16
2. 2Dominique Pagani - Qui se cache sous les surfaces ? Esthétique et politique20 May 2022 · 25:11
3. 3Chateaubriand26 Mar 2019 · 1:23:30
4. 4#3.6 D'Ulysse à Dédale1 Aug 2017 · 1:24:51
5. 5Musicosophie 16. Musique à programme / Musique pure10 Mar 2021 · 1:02:24
6. 6Pourquoi Clouscard est-il indispensable ? (ENG SUBTITLES) Et sa traduction en anglais aussi !3 Jan 2023 · 11:59

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