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Entre la foi et la raison, ou des voies qui amènent au sens : Augustin ou le Maître est là de Joseph Malègue

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Litwinowicz-Krutnik Z.
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2020
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vol. 9
321-330
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The thirst for truth and constitution of meaning can be considered the spiritus movens of Augustin Méridier’s life, the main character of Joseph Malègue’s novel Augustin ou le Maître est là (1933), whose author has been proclaimed “the Catholic Proust” ( José Fontaine, Wanda Rupolo, Jeanne Ancelet-Hustache, Jacques Madaule). Several models of the quest for truth can be found in the formation of meaning as presented in the novel, among others, Socrates’ pattern, which consider the truth an absolute value, and models originating from ancient philosophical schools. Nevertheless, it is the model of Saint Augustine which deserves an in-depth analysis. Augustin Méridier (whose first name is not coincidental), driven towards positivism by the works of positive exegetes and the Catholic modernism authors, is torn between faith and science, and finally turns against religion. His internal battles can be read as the re-interpretation of the medieval “fides quærens intellectum” problem. The hero’s quest for meaning, reflecting the sacred dimension of understanding, finally culminates in the union of faith and reason, as he comes to the conclusion that transcendence cannot be, as Auguste Comte wanted, immanent to humanity. Thus, the present article attempts to analyse Augustin Meridier’s path towards faith and meaning according to Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, who also, having abandoned the Christian faith in the interest of the search for rational meaning, found the Truth in the union of faith and reason. Philosophy as a means to reach the truth and the Augustinian motto “Crede ut intelligas, intellige ut credas” as a way of understanding can be then regarded as two main axes of this analysis.
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Le problème de la mémoire cinesthésique dans Augustin ou le Maître est là de Joseph Malègue

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Litwinowicz-Krutnik Z.
Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
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2020
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vol. XXX
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issue Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature
109-120
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In Joseph Malègue’s novel Augustine or the Master is Here, published in 1933, synaesthesia has a crucial role in the functioning of memory and in the shaping of human being’s situation in time. The synaesthetic memory, built upon synaesthetic experiences, is understood as a global memory determined by unified senses of vision, smell, taste, hearing and touch, inextricably connected to involuntary memory. As Malègue’s treatment of memory bears a strong resemblance to that of Marcel Proust in his cycle In Search of Lost Time, the synaesthetic memory in the novel is constituted by three main elements: the eternity of the main protagonist’s childhood memories, unified by the memorable smell of hay; the search of the absolute by the characters; and finally, the mystical experiences called “ecstasies of memory”. The latter determine moments comparable to an illumination, when the involuntary memory turns up out of an unexpected event or a stimulation of a particular sense. The article offers a close reading of three main experiences constituting the “ecstasies of memory” in the novel Augustine or the Master is Here: the phenomena of roses and Liszt’s rhapsody, linked with the protagonist’s love to his almost-fiancée Anne de Préfailles; the Font-Sainte chapel, which marks his first religious experience ; and finally, the pilgrimage to a place called also Font-Sainte, which reappears in the novel, becoming its leitmotiv and the buckle of the protagonist’s identity.
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