Neither God nor Devil The Religious in the Posthumous Collections Faust au village and Les Récits de la demi-brigade

The objective here is to identify and analyze the religious references present in two posthumous collections of short stories. The fantastic, burlesque and cynicism that characterize them reveal a different relationship between Giono and the supernatural, religion and death. In a new way, these short stories signal the end of “Christian illusion” and “the end of heroes”, but also, and above all, the advent of an era in which death is holy bread and spilt blood, the only Blessed Sacrament.