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Published in 1991, "Tous les matins du monde" of Pascal Quignard made to appear a real still life from Lubin Baugin called "Le Dessert de gaufrettes" (Musée du Louvre). The importance of this painting in the novel - both narrative and symbolic - is crucial. Baugin's painting constitutes indeed a genetic matrix that must be examined in order to better understand the trajectory of "Tous les matins du monde", insofar as it incites and initiates writing, thereby acquiring a singular hermeneutic depth.
Pascal Quignard belongs to those contemporary French writers whose work draws on music, while demonstrating ambivalent or even ambiguous feelings towards it. In this article, we explore the reasons, the challenges and the functions of what Quignard himself called the 'hatred of music' in an eponymous and landmark essay in which he reveals the secrets of his relationship to music, a relationship that intertwines his family history with the History of the Second World War.