De la musique à l’ironie, et retour Interprétation musicale et interprétation textuelle dans l’œuvre d’André Gide

In the essay Notes sur Chopin, Gide claims the existence of perfect performance and interaction between author, musician and audience. The correlation between musical rendering and reading activity raises the question about Gide’s reflection on musical rendering, highlighting his idea of literary interpretation. According to Gide, behind the lecturer’s involvement expected within his writings, emerges through reading, a form of text performance or text realization. Thus, dealing with irony in André Gide’s works rhymes with the deployment of coexisting and contradictory manners of reading.