Sartre’s fascination with the Fall and divine condemnation is a recurring feature of existentialist biographies. In the cases of Baudelaire, Genet, and Flaubert, it allows him to deploy a certain relation to time, and to continue a reflection on the mysteries of writing that had been interrupted—this is connected to his relation to his childhood, with its rejection of History and its neurosis. The rejection of a nostalgia for a lost Eden therefore appears to support a general representation of literature.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-09852-2
EAN:9782406098522
ISSN: 2551-9093
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-09852-2.p.0209
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 12-02-2019
Periodicity: Annual
Language: French
Keyword: religion, atheism, Paradise, the Fall, original sin, condemnation, history, nostalgia, childhood, writing