Roland

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani discusses Roland through the Song of Roland, which he calls the epic beginning of our poetry1. He treats Roland as the very type of the warrior hero of the chanson de geste, and returns to him several times between 2014 and 2023 to stress that love has little place there: it speaks of blows more than of love, it belongs to the epos, not the psyche2. The fair Aude only appears or waits, and there is no love story34. This trait serves as a point of comparison with what comes later in literature, whether Proust or the "orgy of sentiment". He also dwells on the image of the horn: the call that carries from afar, and Roland losing his blood as he blows into it, an image he links to a reflection on hearing and fascination56. Finally, in connection with the Grail quest, he notes that Charlemagne's nephew was probably killed by Basque raiders7.

1. 1L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 8:23
2. 2#4 Neofascisme et idéologie du désir; sur la pensée de M.Clouscard.26 Sept 2014 · 16:28
3. 3Proust30 Jan 2020 · 56:18
4. 4Dominique Pagani : De la débauche du sens à l'orgie du sentiment29 May 2023 · 58:50
5. 59 #24 "C'est réglé comme du papier à musique !" • Nerval • Baudelaire • 2ème partie30 Jun 2021 · 58:08
6. 6L’hésitation fascinée par l’ouÏe et par la vue : Siegfried et Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 1:58:13
7. 7La quête du Graal, bondieuserie ou sacrilège ?1 Apr 2024 · 49:28

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