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From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
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> Hello,
> one more sighting to report! in " Le Regard d´ Orphée: les mythes
> littéraires de l´Occident", 2001, Ed. du Seuil.
> ( I´ve found it in a text translated to Portuguese as: " O Olhar de
Orfeu"
> on Chapter Seven, by Phillipe Sollers - " Do Mito à realidade: Don Juan e
> Casanova").
>
> Phillipe Sollers made two references in his essay: in the first one he
> lightly quoted Nabokov´s phrase " a democracy of details", when
describing
> Fragonard´s painting La fête à Saint-Cloud in which several authors saw
deep
> melancholy and political meanings where he, Sollers, only found a
> scintillating party with folliages and dancing bodies.
> His second reference comes at the end of the essay and is rather curious.
> I´ll translate the entire paragraph, but from the text in Portuguese:
> Don Juan, a European myth, traversed cultures and literary genders:
Spanish
> in his first shape, then French in the text, Italian in his libretto,
> Austrian in its music, and Russian, surprisingly I am reminded of Nabokov,
> Tirso de Molina, Molière, Da Ponta, Casanova, Mozart, Sade, and then
> Baudelaire, afterwards Lautrèamont, and then Joyce, then Celine and then,
> once again, Nabokov. "A passing butterfly". After him, no one else.
There
> is no one else, and the XXth Century is is mourning. The result: a
> generalized nihilism.
>
> Sollers ended not only Casanova´s or Don Juan´s mythical adventures at the
> end of the XXth Century, but he closed it with Nabokov´s flitting
fluttering
> butterflies...
>
> ( I´m afraid to sound redundant and a bit "feminist" when I remind those
> unfamiliar with French culture and and intellectual life that P.Sollers is
> Julia Kristeva´s companion...)
>
> Greetings, Jansy
>
From: "Jansy Berndt de Souza Mello" <jansy@aetern.us>
>
> ----------------- Message requiring your approval (34
lines) ------------------
> Hello,
> one more sighting to report! in " Le Regard d´ Orphée: les mythes
> littéraires de l´Occident", 2001, Ed. du Seuil.
> ( I´ve found it in a text translated to Portuguese as: " O Olhar de
Orfeu"
> on Chapter Seven, by Phillipe Sollers - " Do Mito à realidade: Don Juan e
> Casanova").
>
> Phillipe Sollers made two references in his essay: in the first one he
> lightly quoted Nabokov´s phrase " a democracy of details", when
describing
> Fragonard´s painting La fête à Saint-Cloud in which several authors saw
deep
> melancholy and political meanings where he, Sollers, only found a
> scintillating party with folliages and dancing bodies.
> His second reference comes at the end of the essay and is rather curious.
> I´ll translate the entire paragraph, but from the text in Portuguese:
> Don Juan, a European myth, traversed cultures and literary genders:
Spanish
> in his first shape, then French in the text, Italian in his libretto,
> Austrian in its music, and Russian, surprisingly I am reminded of Nabokov,
> Tirso de Molina, Molière, Da Ponta, Casanova, Mozart, Sade, and then
> Baudelaire, afterwards Lautrèamont, and then Joyce, then Celine and then,
> once again, Nabokov. "A passing butterfly". After him, no one else.
There
> is no one else, and the XXth Century is is mourning. The result: a
> generalized nihilism.
>
> Sollers ended not only Casanova´s or Don Juan´s mythical adventures at the
> end of the XXth Century, but he closed it with Nabokov´s flitting
fluttering
> butterflies...
>
> ( I´m afraid to sound redundant and a bit "feminist" when I remind those
> unfamiliar with French culture and and intellectual life that P.Sollers is
> Julia Kristeva´s companion...)
>
> Greetings, Jansy
>