issue of Sunday, November 13, 2005
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
A life, a work (France Culture)
by: Francesca Isidori
Director: Francis Caunac
The recent publication in one volume and a new translation of Benito Pelegrin political treaties, aesthetic and ethical Baltasar Gracian is an opportunity to rediscover the work of this English Jesuit whose success at his age, equaled only by the wrath he drew upon himself to within his religious order. He who praised the art of prudence in the Oracle manual published all his books (except the Art of Communion) under the pseudonym "Lorenzo Gracian, a gentleman, but never ask permission of his superiors.
"Spirit ambidextrous" and always "knows discourse on both sides" Gracian is both the heir of the sophists or Castiglione and Machiavelli, but it offers the ideal human is universal, and that "government of the self he wants to reach everyone. For the art of success and effectiveness, which is the main issue of his work in a world where we must use "divine means as if there were no humans and human resources as if there were no God, "Gracian multiplying paradoxes and precepts, maxims and aphorisms in this concise, condensed, in games of language and meaning, and baroque designs, which are the best illustration of his poetic as expressed in "y arte de ingenio Agudeza. Over generations readers called La Rochefoucauld, Schopenhauer (who translated into German in 1861), Nietzsche, or Jankélévitch and Lacan.
Speakers:
Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658)
A life, a work (France Culture)
by: Francesca Isidori
Director: Francis Caunac
The recent publication in one volume and a new translation of Benito Pelegrin political treaties, aesthetic and ethical Baltasar Gracian is an opportunity to rediscover the work of this English Jesuit whose success at his age, equaled only by the wrath he drew upon himself to within his religious order. He who praised the art of prudence in the Oracle manual published all his books (except the Art of Communion) under the pseudonym "Lorenzo Gracian, a gentleman, but never ask permission of his superiors.
"Spirit ambidextrous" and always "knows discourse on both sides" Gracian is both the heir of the sophists or Castiglione and Machiavelli, but it offers the ideal human is universal, and that "government of the self he wants to reach everyone. For the art of success and effectiveness, which is the main issue of his work in a world where we must use "divine means as if there were no humans and human resources as if there were no God, "Gracian multiplying paradoxes and precepts, maxims and aphorisms in this concise, condensed, in games of language and meaning, and baroque designs, which are the best illustration of his poetic as expressed in "y arte de ingenio Agudeza. Over generations readers called La Rochefoucauld, Schopenhauer (who translated into German in 1861), Nietzsche, or Jankélévitch and Lacan.
Speakers:
- Benito Pelegrin. writer, essayist, professor emeritus at the University of Provence and translator of Baltasar Gracian
- Mercedes Blanco. professor at the University of Lille
- Alonso Tordesillas. professor at the University of Provence
For details, see the website archives de France Culture :
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/vie_oeuvre/fiche.php?diffusion_id=35832
http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-culture2/emissions/vie_oeuvre/fiche.php?diffusion_id=35832
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