The spells of light in Gaspard de la Nuit Under the sign of paradox and ambivalence

Natural or artificial luminaires are under the sign of ambivalence. They are one of the paths taken by the transfiguration of reality for poetic purposes. The spells of light are linked to the strange and the expression of fantasies (obsessive images of fire, the devil and his acolytes, the monstrous, death). Under the double sign of derision by the grotesque or black humor, and of poetization, beauty and evil, light is agent, even subject.