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Written between 1955 and 1988, these essays, published under the title kéleüta, provide an excellent insight into the author's wide-ranging thoughts. Provost's review identifies the essential characteristics of Xenakis' thinking, then focuses upon the importance of his contribution to the development of musical creation and to artistic thought in general.
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The early years of the Fronde produced a flowering of polemical writings: “il n'est pas mesme jusque des femmes qui ne s'en meslent” [even women are getting involved], Cardinal Mazarin's librarian, Gabriel Naudé, noted with disdain. Among these female lampoonists was Suzanne de Nervèze, whose Le Rieur de la cour [The Court Jester] was published in 1649. In this brief work, the author adopts a number of textual strategies to legitimize her public and critical expression of opinion. Wearing the mask of the Jester, this “new Democritus,” she goes on to denounce all the expressions of court hypocrisy. Beyond this lesson in ethics, however, what she ultimately seeks to preserve is the status quo of a social and political order in crisis.
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