Malraux

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly quotes André Malraux for a remark made in 1945: between the communists and the Gaullists, "there is nothing"1. He returns to this phrase several times between 2012 and 2018 and turns its meaning around: in his view, this "nothing" has become "the whole that governs" or "the whole that rules us"23. He thus uses it to describe today's political power, now occupied by what Malraux's remark treated as empty. An allusion in 2014 takes up the same idea, less clearly4. During a broadcast devoted to Michel Clouscard, it is the publisher who recalls another of Malraux's remarks: Mitterrand would be the candidate of the whole left, the far right included5. Finally, in a 2024 session on illness, misfortune and evil, he mentions Malraux in a different context: it was under him that the cleaning of Paris's blackened monuments was undertaken6.

1. 1Z comme Zéro9 Jan 2015 · 2:23
2. 2Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 16 Jul 2012 · 15:45
3. 3#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions2 Nov 2018 · 56:48
4. 4K comme Karl25 Dec 2014 · 8:45
5. 5Radio Galère - Michel Clouscard - 16 Jul 2012 · 16:26
6. 6La maladie, le malheur, le mal20 Sept 2024 · 13:38

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.