Readings on the spot
Dominique Pagani reads and comments on a text: Mallarmé, Nietzsche, Aragon, Kleist, Rimbaud, from Plato to Proust.
- 01
Mallarmé, or class struggle on the lawn
How does Mallarmé, a poet reputed to be aristocratic and hermetic, stage the class struggle and the condition of the working class in "Conflit"?
- 02
Nietzsche, or the Great Ninny
What do two paragraphs of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil reveal about the music to come and the German soul?
- 03
Aragon, “The Paris Peasant Sings”
What does Aragon's "Le Paysan de Paris chante" say about working-class Paris and demonstrations, and how does this poem from the Resistance connect with current events?
- 04
Kleist, “On the Marionette Theatre”
Why, according to Kleist, does grace appear only in the marionette or in god, and never in the man who reflects?
- 05
Our former savagery? An Illumination by Arthur Rimbaud
What does the question "Est-ce ancienne sauvagerie qu'on pardonne ?" mean in Rimbaud's "Mouvement," posed before a young couple in the midst of a hymn to industrial modernity?
- 06
From Plato to Proust
What does amorous desire seek through the body and the gaze: someone or something?