“A work of art is only truly a work of art if it comes out of the depths of the author's mind, not only of the mind but of his guts", declares Paul Claudel in his Mémoires improvisés, although he is hostile to any introspective approach. The intimate depths of his being, this obscure self that he refuses to probe, is the site of a double conversion, that of the Christian who aims at evangelisation and that of the poet who draws from it the material of his work.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques