Cycle 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and PercevalVillon
Appears in 7 videos · 8 passages, 1 of them in depth.
Summary
Dominique Pagani almost always comes back to the Ballade des dames du temps jadis. He considers it one of the most beautiful poems in the language and recites its stanzas on Echo and on Joan of Arc1. He dwells on it above all in connection with whiteness: the "queen white as a lily" serves him as an example of feminine beauty conceived as whiteness, and of the purity attached to that colour2. He takes up this image again in sessions devoted to Siegfried and Perceval, to the Grail quest and to redemption3. "Joan, the good maid of Lorraine" and "the snows of yesteryear" also illustrate this theme of white4. He also quotes "Where are the snows of yesteryear" alongside Arthur, Duke of Brittany5. In what he considers Villon's most beautiful poem, he points to the imperfect tense proper to remembrance6. Finally, with Aragon, he gives Villon as an example: the great French authors are almost never aristocrats7.
- 1Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 5:29
- 2The aporias of anthropology23 Nov 2022 · 1:08:29
- 3Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval12 Dec 2022 · 39:23
- 4The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?1 Apr 2024 · 1:28:02
- 5#6 Harnessed to confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 20:34
- 6Worldliness in Clouscard, or “the dominant ideology”26 Apr 2023 · 27:09
- 7#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…24 Nov 2021 · 9:08
Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.
Who is this?François Villon (; Modern French:; Middle French:; c. 1431 – after 1463) is the best known French poet of the Late Middle Ages. He was involved in criminal behavior and had multiple encounters with law enforcement authorities. Villon wrote about some of these experiences in his poems.
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Cycle 11 · 12 Dec 2022Hesitation fascinated by hearing and by sight: Siegfried and Perceval
Cycle 12 · 21 Apr 2024Saving the saviour? Redemption, the end of the cycle or its new beginning?- 1:24:48Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone TimesThe white queen like a lily.
Cycle 12 · 1 Apr 2024The quest for the Grail, sanctimony or sacrilege?- 1:28:02Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone TimesJeanne la bonne Lorraine and the snows of yesteryear illustrate the white.
Cycle 11 · 26 Apr 2023Worldliness in Clouscard, or “the dominant ideology”- 27:09Cited for the imperfect tense of memory, in what he considers his most beautiful poem.
Cycle 11 · 23 Nov 2022The aporias of anthropology- 1:08:29Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone TimesThe queen white as a lily: feminine beauty is whiteness.
Cycle 10 · 24 Nov 2021#10.5 The figure of Antigone, such as into herself at last…- 9:08Cited alongside Aragon: the great French authors are almost never aristocrats.
Cycle 7 · 26 Apr 2020#6 Harnessed to confinitude- 20:34Ballad of the Ladies of Bygone Times"Where are the snows of yesteryear" and Arthur, old duke of Brittany.