Роман Сэмюэля Беккета «Мерсье и Камье» как композиционная модель Пятого струнного квартета Паскаля Дюсапена (2005)
Samuel Beckett’s Mercier and Camier as the Compositional Model for Pascal Dusapin’s Fifth Quartet for Strings (2005)

Summary/Abstract: Pascal Dusapin (1955) is one of the most noteworthy French contemporary composers. His output includes seven operas, symphonic, and chamber music. Dusapin’s conception of form and structural handling of sound material reference the entire scope of 20th-century culture. His works embrace musical interpretations of passages from the literature of Samuel Becket, Gertrude Stein and Olivier Cadiot; the theory of morphogenesis by the French mathematician Rene Thom; the philosophical conceptions of Gilles Deleuze; the experiments in light by artists Barnet Newman and James Turrell, and the constructive experiments of film directors Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini. This paper illustrates Dusapin’s aesthetic position through the example of his musical interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s literary style. Such is the case of the Fifth Quartet for strings, which takes Beckett’s novel Mercier and Camier as its model. Dusapin’s methodical approach is observed in the context of contemporary music’s tendency to appropriate the prototypes of an extramusical form.

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