Two years after his hospitalization at the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière in 1972, Malraux chose to share what the confrontation was that he had had with the imminence of death. The guardian figure of Lazarus helps him recount this journey from life to death and from death to life. Referring to Christ in limbo, he tries to use elliptical writing to render the failure of the body and the failings of the mind, grasping that he is incapable of conceiving of nothingness. A shift from abolished time to preserved time.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques