> that Cage was the great rediscoverer of Satie as soon as in the thirties
>
> Americans. How was it possible that he got forgotten und how unique was
> he ?
>
> I think there is a permanent stream, how would you see the french
> filmmakers ?
>
> Speaking of movies....and zen
Sorry for this Heiko, but I'm french... and Satie wasn't that famous during
his life, and was quite forgotten once dead. He still has here the
sympathetic image of an obscure small piano teacher (which he was), even
though every one knows the Morceau en forme de poire. French did have genius
whose humor prevent us to think seriously about what they were doing (Jarry,
Roussel, Brisset, Queneau, Perec, Chaissac, Filliou, Gasiorowski, and even
Duchamp who was absolutely unknown in the fifties in France -not to speak of
the thirties...). We always prefered dogmatics autocrats like Boulez or
Breton, Dubuffet, Seurat or Ingres...). And this is a loud historical
tendency: think to Voltaire and Diderot/Rousseau, Musset/Chateaubriand,
Corneille/Racine, Rabelais, Villon /Du Bellay, Marot etc.
Bertrand
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