Conversations avec le maitre, the first volume of a series called ‘Haute mer’, is a novel about the experience of listening to music. Through conversations between a composer and an anonymous young woman, it conveys crucial aspects of musical listening and of its verbal expression. This article examines the functioning of dialogue between the two characters; moreover, it studies the relationship between creation and reception, as expressed in the novel. It also examines what is at stake in this dialogue: the power of art in its relation to reality, to History. How may music become the echo of contemporary catastrophes? The article offers a close reading of the novel’s descriptions of listening to music: what literary techniques enable the author to put it into words?

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L'écoute musice et ses enjeux dans Conversations avec le maître de Cécile Wajsbrot

Conversations avec le maitre 是名为“Haute mer”系列的第一卷，是一部关于聆听音乐体验的小说。通过作曲家和匿名年轻女性之间的对话，它传达了音乐聆听及其口头表达的重要方面。本文考察了两个角色之间对话的功能；此外，它还研究了小说中所表达的创作与接受之间的关系。它还考察了这场对话中的利害关系：艺术在与现实、历史的关系中的力量。音乐如何成为当代灾难的回声？这篇文章仔细阅读了小说对听音乐的描述：作者用什么文学技巧将其转化为文字？