Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew Le neveu de Rameau : a multi-media bilingual edition
(eBook)

English

"The translation in this book is from Denis Diderot, "Satyre seconde : le neveu de Rameau", ed. Marian Hobson (Droz : Geneva, 2013"--Verso of title-page.

Available through Open Book Publishers.

Previous ed. published with slightly different title: Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew : a multi-media edition. 2014.

This new edition includes: Introduction ; Original text ; English translation ; Embedded audio-files ; Explanatory notes ; Interactive material ; 100 colour illustrations ; Additional online resources.

Includes bibliographical references.

Open access resource providing free access.

"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."--Publisher's website.

"Musical Resources. The pieces specially performed and recorded for this multi-media edition were chosen to provide samples of music of 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."--Publisher's website.

A list of the musical pieces included in this publication is available from the publisher's website. These can be downloaded, either in MP3 or in WAV format, by clicking on the corresponding link (please note that this works best with Chrome, Safari, and Internet Explorer). Alternatively, you can scan the QR codes provided.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

All musical recordings have been released under a CC BY license and their copyright belongs to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.

The text and the music are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

Translated from the French.