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Claire Daudin - Collection Litterature cerf
Résumé
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Like statues on pedestals, Péguy, Bernanos and Mauriac have gathered dust. The authors have dated - not their works - this is what posterity has done to them by reserving a niche for each one in the great literary edifice, where they may remain almost completely undisturbed. Endowing these authors with a halo does not seem the best way of extirpating them from the sacristy in which their effigies languish. Why these three names, when there are so many other contenders? In a series on Catholic writers, one would expect Bloy, Claudel or Green. In one on committed writers, countless minor talents would swell the ranks. This choice is a personal one: the result of becoming acquainted with the men and their works. Péguy, Bernanos and Mauriac: each had his own personal faith to which his writing testifies without 'imprimatur', observing a distance vis-à-vis the Church as an institution, thus guaranteeing creative freedom. They were Christians, and there is every reason to believe them these writers have nothing in common with their peers who chose to affiliate themselves with a party, an ideology or dogma. They envisaged their commitment in quite a different manner. Their entire existence, with its varying dimensions, was oriented towards the Christian absolute and tormented by it. Destined to be writers, they felt obliged to question themselves deeply on their own vocations: what place has a wordsmith in God's great plan? Péguy, Bernanos and Mauriac have not been convoked here to resolve a problem of literary theory. They themselves are the subjects under discussion, their coherence during turbulent times, their creative trials and tribulations and their private anguish. The fact that they were writers does not exempt them or put them in the clear in any way. Their oeuvres are part of a flow of life, existing in a dimension that surpasses it, one that unites all three.
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Claire Daudin |
Collection | Litterature cerf |
Parution | 09/11/2006 |
Format | 13.4 x 21.4 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 314g |
EAN13 | 9782204081351 |
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