Claudel, a primitive of modernity?

The article explores the play of the primitive and the modern in the construction of a liminarity characteristic of the work of Paul Claudel and Sylvie Germain. He observes how the two authors, despite different eras and genres, write within the border to build a permanent posture of adjustment between the religious and the secular, the unspeakable and the language, the original and the subject, the primitive and the modern.