Here are some notes taken during presentation of our comrade and a few notes very brief resume of the teacher (2 min): You will find here the outline ...
Excerpts:
Seneca v. 1944-1996
Suares: p. 86-89 (sc. XVII)
Claudel: p. 228-232
Balde: p. 190-181
Presentation:
Intro: 4 texts corresponding to an end. Function to close the room while opening a new perspective to a higher state.
I Scenes like conclusion.
- stop wailing by imperatives: Seneca, Balde (+ binary rhythm)
- Duty to stop wailing indicated by temporal indications imaged.
- In Claudel is quite different.
- In Suares, breaking with pathos less marked feature choir + gold + bird anyway closure effect.
- Effect loop from the beginning in Seneca.
- Choir begins the piece with Balde
- Function of revelation of these scenes.
II Access to an afterlife.
1) evocation of a passage.
With sometimes the presence of a guide or companion.
2) Towards a new order, the better.
- by, for and thanks to the heroes.
- sometimes link to "Golden Age" + all ref. Bible!
- BUT it is also the unknown for Tête d'Or (which contrary to Suares there is a preview of death)
- religious material very imp. except in Suares.
III The question of Grace.
1)??
- an allusion to suffering: many Claudel, virtually absent in Seneca, ditto for Balde which is curious since / / Christ ... So all except the Passion?
- BUT, grace seems deserved the 4 texts: virtus, exemplary life, purity. + idea of a transcendent force.
2) The power of redemption in Claudel.
- Princess Fig. redemption for Golden Head, fighting his sadness, his pessimism.
- But there is a struggle against grace and conversion -> which is reminiscent of Claudel's own conversion.
Very rapid recovery by the teacher:
- Do not minimize the Grace Claudel -> now, the princess herself is in Grace -> Tete d'Or also a revelation in stating his Christian virtues and realizing that he has not lived (all with a game metaphor of Lazarus).
- Princess showed him that since he had compassion, he took it to Dea touched by grace.
- Princess Christ figure with a cross to bear.
- It's come a song amoeba, 2 votes in the Grace.
- In Balde possible presence of Virgil, OK, but it is through the Christian exegesis of Bucolics including the 5th.
It will perhaps be the result of this correction at the last meeting.
