Sterne

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Laurence Sterne in passing, always from the same angle: as a model that others imitate. In the sessions on Nerval's Angélique, he presents him as an English humorist then in fashion, whom Diderot imitates12. In the session on Schumann, he places him within an English avant-garde that practises the author's dialogue with his reader3. This device is the literary feature he most clearly attributes to him. Later, he cites him as one of the links in a "cascade" or "chain" of imitations, first in the interview introducing the workshops in 20204, then in 20245. Apart from Diderot, the passages do not say which other authors make up this chain. He does not read any of Sterne's works closely. He mentions him to situate authors who come after him, and his view stays the same from one session to the next, from 2018 to 2024.

1. 1#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:40:01
2. 2#4.7 Angélique (de Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 50:48
3. 3Schumann2 May 2019 · 38:56
4. 4L'interview de Dominique Pagani : Introduction aux futurs ateliers23 Mar 2020 · 2:13
5. 5TROP TARD ?14 Aug 2024 · 1:09:02

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