Writing the 'e-motio', writing the enjoyment of loss: 'Dernier Royaume' between repetitions and variations

Authors

  • Maria Chiara Brandolini Università di Firenze

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15167/1824-7482/pbfrm2021.35.1964

Abstract

Focusing on Dernier Royaume (The Last Kingdom), this study aims to enquire how his author, Pascal Quignard, inspired also by the figurative arts but mostly by music (in particular, baroque music) can pierce and overturn the rational assumptions on space-time relations by introducing in his texts a kind of perpetual motion balancing between loss and reappropriation. We will see how this motion can liberate an emotion symbolised by tears and how it can host the aoristic wave of jadis time.

Published

2021-12-16 — Updated on 2022-04-30

Versions

Issue

Section

Temps musical, temps narratif et temps perdu : mélomanie et écriture de la perte