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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Tolstoy only occasionally, in two contexts. In 2020, in the Musicosophie series, he mentions him in connection with Beethoven: the Kreutzer Sonata inspired Tolstoy to write a story that begins on a train1. In an earlier session of the same series, devoted to happiness and the death drive in music, he notes that Tolstoy owned hundreds of serfs2. The passages do not say what use he makes of this detail. In 2022, in the sessions devoted to Ukraine, Tolstoy serves mainly as a reference for Russian literature: he cites him among the great Russian authors and the great Russian novelists34. In the session on the problem of "edges" and the outbreak of war, he also remarks that Russian novels constantly point out passages written in French in the text5. He does not do a close reading of any work by Tolstoy in these passages.

1. 1Musicosophie 6. La Variation Jazz... de Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 25:21
2. 2Musicosophie 5. Bonheur contre pulsion de mort en musique11 Dec 2020 · 43:19
3. 3#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 46:46
4. 4#11 UKRAINE : La mathématique unit les hommes, la politique les divise (Aristote)24 Mar 2022 · 31:56
5. 5#10 UKRAINE : Du problème des "Bords" au déchaînement de la guerre24 Feb 2022 · 24:33

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