Salomon

Summary

Dominique Pagani mainly discusses Solomon through the story Nerval retells in the Voyage en Orient. There Solomon forms a triangle with the Queen of Sheba and Adoniram, and he is its sovereign1. He often returns to the fact that the temple bears the name of Solomon, who remains in glory, although it was the workman Adoniram who built it. He also dwells on the meeting with the Queen of Sheba, already found in the Old Testament, and on the hoopoe or the messenger birds she sends him23. In a session on Marthe Robert, he presents him as a king weary of his wives, who laughs at the butterfly. The phrase "Solomon, son of David" serves him as an example of biblical genealogy, which he compares to the griot's oral genealogies45. In 2022, he applies the judgment of Solomon to the war in Ukraine: cutting the child in two is, in his view, what is being done today between Ukrainians and Russians6.

1. 1#4.6 Angélique (by Nerval)15 Mar 2018 · 1:16:00
2. 2#4.8 Angélique (by Nerval)16 May 2018 · 45:03
3. 3#9 Return to the logics of the subject30 May 2020 · 18:37
4. 4#10 Return to the logics of the subject11 Jun 2020 · 3:53
5. 5The essence of evil: innocence of nature, horror of naturalism!17 Dec 2024 · 38:25
6. 6#10 Ukraine: from the problem of “edges” to the unleashing of war24 Feb 2022 · 1:09:47

Summary produced automatically from 14 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.