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L'enjeu sacré de la littérature dans l'oeuvre d'Albert Cohen

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Auteur / Autrice : Alain Schaffner
Direction : Henry Godard
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Sciences des textes et des documents
Date : Soutenance en 1994
Etablissement(s) : Paris 7

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Two opposite movements reveal themselves in albert cohen's works. They are based on a religious atheism, which cannot succeed in clearing up its contradictions. The first one, negative and destructive, knocks down the false idols of the occidental world and leads to a tragic vision of judaism. The second one attepts to reach the divine through sacredness and, by means of autobiographic narration, tries to elaborate a morals without god. Those txwo contradictory tendencies are the key to the ambivalence of sacredness in albert cohen's books. They create a link between psychology and thelogy. Does not the lack of sincere faith in god lead solal and the narrator to a certain form of insincerity? cohen's writing expresses simultaneously the duality of a divided world and a desperate yaerning for unity. This everlasting tension creates a formal dynamics, in which a miracle is always expected from the union of the opposites.