Sumários

Proust - Un amour de Swann

7 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Swann's relationship to art and the topic of idolatry: Vinteuil's sonata (analysis of the different auditions); Odette as the Zipporah by Botticelli; the incompatibility between life and art. The evolution of Swann's relationship to Odette: the anguish caused by the fact of not finding her at the Verdurins, the birth of jealousy, and the illusion of physical "possession".

Proust - Un amour de Swann

2 Outubro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Proust's style: from particular to universal (and back), the use of comparisons; the use of irony and reported speech.

An introduction to Charles Swann: the dilettante of art. Odette de Crécy and kitsch. 

Proust - Un amour de Swann

30 Setembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Introduction to Marcel Proust and À la recherche du temps perdu. "Un amour de Swann" within the larger project of Proust's novel. Social context: the "salon bourgeois" and the Verdurin club; the social discourse about art.

Paris and modernity

25 Setembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Reading and commentary of Ch. Baudelaire, “À une passante” (from Les Fleurs du Mal, 1861); P. Reverdy, “Réalité des ombres” (from Poèmes en prose, 1915); M. Jacob, “La rue Ravignan” and “Écrivez vos mémoires” (from Le Cornet à dés, 1917 and Derniers poèmes en vers et en prose, 1945). 
The topos of the "passante" and its connections to modernity. The photography of Eugène Atget and early 20th-century Paris. Atget in the texts of R. Desnos and P. MacOrlan.

Modernism in France

23 Setembro 2025, 17:00 • Chiara Nifosi

Introduction to French modernism. The use of the words "moderne" and "modernité" in previous historical contexts: "la quérelle des anciens et des modernes", Baudelaire's definition of modernity in The Painter of Modern Life. Possible definitions of modernism (quotes from the Tate Modern website and from the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy). Global vs local modernism(s), an unresolved tension in contemporary modernist studies. French vs Anglo-centered modernism. Modernism vs avant-garde.