Résumé
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A reflection on tears, drawing from the Bible, philosophy, literature and the experience of prison, where the author works as a doctor. In our times, when 'transparency' is hailed as a quasi-absolute, tears trouble our vision by clouding what we see and adding depth. Elusive like water and fire, they overflow and overcome. Constantly deploying their power of interference, they soften the contours of phenomena and blur the borderline between inside and out. Whoever reflects on tears must ponder on his own finitude, intrigued to be a mystery to himself. What can we perceive through tears that we would not see without them? What do they wash away from our eyes? What do they deliver us from? What do they say to man? Tears escape us if we try to systemize them, categorize them, constrain them. They have an incontestable power of subversion - the mystics understood this - hence the ever-present temptation to control, explain, and dry our tears. When it is shared, the moment of tears suspends time and becomes a presence. Suspended tears are both the manifestation of pain and the possibility to endure it. This text is not a treatise, rather a sort of vagabondage in an attempt to encourage and assist those people who weep and are ashamed of their tears, wondering what is happening to them when they are overcome. This meditation remains open, unfinished. Tears hold infinite light, they tell of another place. They disappear and take their mystery with them. By expressing the inexpressible, by telling the unendurable, they help us endure. They bear the impossible even unto joy, when man's dignity, found even in the depths of his despair, might make him vacillate.
L'auteur - Anne Lécu
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PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
Auteur(s) | Anne Lécu |
Collection | Epiphanie |
Parution | 06/09/2012 |
Nb. de pages | 152 |
Format | 13 x 19.5 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 185g |
EAN13 | 9782204097932 |
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