The book of poetry Une petite fille silencieuse, published by James Sacré to collect the texts he wrote after the death of his young daughter, is a deep interrogation about the silence of death. The poet establishes complicated links between silence and time, inventing a subjective and singular temporality, departing from the law of chronology ; furthermore, he avoids asserting the existence of the next world while hoping to hear the voice of his dead daughter. This is why he tries to hear the silence in the words themselves, defining language as the very place of a vain pursuit of a meaningful silence.

In A. Ernaux’s steps, É. Louis writes to account for truth, to bear witness for the real. They experience sounds, noises and silences as particularly meaningful signs of the social classes that they live in. Their original, popular environment is made of constant noise, whether coming from inside the body or the surrounding working-place. Later as they rise socially, they realise that more privileged classes live in a filtered, muffled world. But being loud may also be a move toward freedom, an expression of the lived experience. The theatre stage is a particularly apt media for the telling of É. Louis’s stories as it enables the varied experiences to be heard and felt through their vibrations, and all noises on stage make sense.

By exploring Deleuze’s theory of the creative act, I suggest in the first part of this article that all art forms can achieve a generalized musicality. This musicality denotes a region of perception that goes beyond ordinary senses, with which we can come into contact either by creating or by witnessing art. In the second part, I illustrate the possibility that this doctrine opens for a musical literature, i.e. a literature able to achieve the generalized musicality, with some fragments of surrealist literature. I conclude with the idea that the doctrine at hand could constitute an evolution and a radicalization of surrealist aesthetics.

Music is a keystone in the entire work of Marie Krysinska, who was first and foremost a musician. Guided by the rule of universal harmony, the perfect realisations of which are musical compositions, she applies it in her poems as well as in her narrative texts. Krysinska's novel, La Force du désir [The Force of Desire], was read in its time primarily as a roman à clef. Behind the literary characters are real people: poets, writers, actresses, singers, journalists, composers. One of the portraits is particularly touching, that of de Vivray whose real-life prototype was Charles-Erhardt de Sivry. A musician, conductor, poet and music theorist, de Sivry charmed listeners with his compositions. In the diegesis, all his professional activities are mentioned, more or less revealed. Thanks to Charles de Vivray's three concerts, the novelistic space transforms into a musical space.

The article is devoted to the presentation of various aspects of the Tannhäuser’s fourth performance on the Parisian stage on May 13th, 1895, conducted by Paul Taffanel and directed by Alexander Lapissida. The author, following the reviews that appeared in many Parisian journals after this performance, describes the most characteristic elements of the scenery made by Dauphin Amable Petit, known as Amable (the first tableau of the first act), Marcel Jambon (the second tableau of the first act and the third act) and Eugène Carpezat (the second act). All the reviewers underlined the enthusiastic reactions of the audience that were not only provoked by the brilliant interpretation of the Wagner’s opera by the artists in 1895 but first off all by its intention to efface the compromising recollections of the Parisian Tannhäuser’s premiere in 1861.