Lorelei

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani refers to the Lorelei as the fairy, or nixie, of the Rhine rock whose irresistible song lures the boatmen and wrecks their boats12. In a session on Nerval's Angélique, he links her to "the eternal myth of the siren," which he calls a myth of the edge3. She comes back in other sessions on Nerval, on the nomad and the sedentary or on Nerval and Baudelaire. There he stresses her ambivalence: she is a woman who is both alluring and dangerous4. He also mentions her in connection with music. In a "Musicosophie" session on Schubert, he cites the Schumann lied in which she bewitches a knight and dooms him to wander5. From 2018 to 2021 his description stays the same: the song, the rock, the wreck of the Rhine's sailors. He uses her as a mythical figure that he connects to the siren, to Nerval's poetry and to the Romantic lied.

1. 1#8 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude17 May 2020 · 1:03:22
2. 2#4 Nomade et sédentaire - Le cas Nerval4 Oct 2021 · 1:34:38
3. 3#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 57:11
4. 49 #24 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Nerval • Baudelaire • 2ème partie30 Jun 2021 · 37:41
5. 5Musicosophie 1. Schubert et les maîtres chanteurs3 Dec 2020 · 22:39

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