Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

doi:10.11647/obp.0098

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Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau': A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition - cover image

Book Series

Open Book Classics vol. 4
ISSN Print: 2054-216X
ISSN Digital: 2054-2178

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0098

License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright

Marian Hobson; Kate E. Tunstall; Caroline Warman;

Published On

2016-06-20

ISBN

Paperback978-1-909254-90-9

Hardback978-1-909254-91-6

PDF978-1-909254-92-3

HTML978-1-80064-517-2

XML978-1-78374-631-6

EPUB978-1-909254-93-0

MOBI978-1-909254-94-7

Language

English

Print Length

262 pages (xii + 250)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 18 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.72" x 9.21")

Hardback156 x 22 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.88" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1109g (39.12oz)

Hardback1498g (52.84oz)

Media

Illustrations101

Audio18

OCLC Number

1000431277

LCCN

2019452720

BIC

BISAC

PHI000000
MUS020000
MUS028000
LIT004150

LCC

PQ1979.A66

Keywords

Denis Diderot
satyre
dialogue
translation
composers
opera

Denis Diderot 'Rameau's Nephew' - 'Le Neveu de Rameau'

A Multi-Media Bilingual Edition

2nd Edition

Denis Diderot (author)
Marian Hobson (editor)
Kate E. Tunstall (translator)
Caroline Warman (translator)
Pascal Duc (music editor)

Winner of the 2015 British Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies' prize for digital publication.

In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways.

Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot’s famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique.

This new edition includes: - Introduction - Original text - English translation - Embedded audio-files - Explanatory Notes - Interactive Material

Additional Resources

[blog]Interdisciplinary Diderot

[document]Goethe’s translation of Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew/Satire Seconde: le Neveu de Rameau, or Denis Diderot’s Rameau’s Nephew and the bizarre story of its survival By Marian Hobson

[document]Denis Diderot’s Rameaus Neffe With notes by Joanna Raisbeck

[document]Anmerkungen Über Personen und Gegenstände, deren in dem Dialog „Rameaus Neffe” erwähnt wird Vorerinnerung

[document]Nachträgliches Zu „Rameaus Neffe”

[document]Goethe’s and Schiller’s correspondence on Rameaus Neffe, including Goethe’s diary entries

[video]1. François-André Danican Philidor, L’Art de la modulation [The Art of Modulation], extract: First quartet: Sinfonia (Con spirito – Moderato)(CC BY license; Copyright: Conservatoire de Paris)

The pieces specially performed and recorded for this multi-media edition were chosen to provide samples of music or composers that are less well known today, or to give examples of transcription, one of the principle ways that pieces came to be known and played in a private setting at the time.