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The author of the book The Class of Messiaen shows the long-awaited publication of the course materials on musical analysis given by the great Parisian master brings new light to understanding of his universe: the nature of his approach to rhythm, his specific analytical style for The Rite of Spring, and the richness of associations in the discussion of his own work. This book review helps orient our approach to the treatise.
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AbstractIt seems philosophical narrativity may have made an awkward break from the moving masses of the world and the inherent ambiguity of human life. Yet the first human stories, much like a celestial echo, had set out to narrate the shortcomings, human dramas, control and excesses, strengths and weaknesses, as well as life and death, all elements of a shared – and thereby enigmatic – world. Why and how did philosophy managed to do away with human helplessness, to convince us that truth is not only possible but also the basis of existence ? Those are the issues this article tackles.
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Who knows the poem ? In attempting to come to grips with this question, the author begins with the "glosses" accompanying André Frénaud's Sorcière de Rome. The poet's singular gesture here consists in his continual self-questioning as to the "how" of the poem. He discovers that self-realization through signs is tantamount to detaching oneself from language. The gloss thus has the function of fixing the image of the poetical process. The concepts it mobilizes are largely those of psychoanalysis which, in Frénaud's case, means conferring on the actors in the poem mythical or tragic dimensions requiring no elucidation. The gloss is not a model for reading ; it is a reading engrossed by its object - the frémissement d'être, (or "thrill of being") it contains. What the poet discovers and teaches us is that every poem is at its core a metapoem, in that it confronts the mystery of its own existence and coming-into-being.
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