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« Qu’est-ce que la Religion universelle ? » : étude sur une question posée par Baudelaire

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Szymański T.

Quêtes littéraires

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2013

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issue 3

76-84

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In “My heart laid bare” Baudelaire writes about the “Universal Religion” devised for “the alchemists of thought,” “a religion that comes from man, considered as a divine memento.” The idea, as we read in the text, was inspired by the writings of Chateaubriand, De Maistre and those of the “Alexandrians”. And indeed, the two former authors wrote explicitly about a „universal tradition” that finds its fulfillment in the Catholic religion. It does not matter if we recognize the “Alexandrians” as representatives of the Neoplatonic school, the Alexandrian Fathers of Church, or disciples of Hermetism, the very term implies a tradition of both syncretic and mystic character that resembles gnosis. Baudelaire’s “Universal Religion,” despite his Catholic convictions, cannot be associated with Catholicism. Based on a universal transmission of myths and symbols, it rather refers to eternal truths about man as well as to the divine source of all beings – also in the modern world, which puts God’s existence in doubt.

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Entre dentelle et fragment : évolution de la tactique du vide rimbaldienne de la Saison aux Illuminationsv

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Rafika H.

Quêtes littéraires

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2017

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issue 7

51-60

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A Season in Hell and Illuminations both of these collections are considered as masterpieces of Rimbaud’s poetry. Whereas A Season in Hell is presented as his artistic testimony, Illuminations, on the other hand, is considered by critics as an abstruse writing, an enigma. Acknowledging critical scholarship on this topic, as well as inherent differences of both collections, this article will show that a link could be found between these two works. This thread, which creates what we would like to call Rimbaud’s embroidery, was created by himself through silence and words. That is this will of Rimbaud for both works and the readers that we will discuss here, a strategy that we have named: Tactic of Emptiness.

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The Monastic Hermitage in the End of 19thCentury French Literature: a New Identity Space

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Cedergren M.

Human and Social Studies

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2015

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vol. 4

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issue 2

103-118

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Through a comparative reading of three novels of the late nineteenth century, namely Le Disciple, A rebours and Un homme libre, the monastic hermitage has emerged as a common place in which the protagonists of the novels, in search for a spiritual space, let themselves be shaped and transformed by the materiality of places. Through the consideration of the specific features of these closed and sacred sanctuaries, as well as the identity and the dream of the end of the 19th century man, a new literature searching for an ideal will appear openly.

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« Qu’est-ce que la Religion universelle ? » : étude sur une question posée par Baudelaire

Entre dentelle et fragment : évolution de la tactique du vide rimbaldienne de la Saison aux Illuminationsv

The Monastic Hermitage in the End of 19thCentury French Literature: a New Identity Space