« Il y a une divinité en toi » Figures et manifestations de l’inspiration chez Julien Gracq

Challenging the mythology of election as well as overly technical conceptions of writing, Gracq’s understanding of literary inspiration is linked to accounts of language that grant certain poets a quasi-sacerdotal character associated with a capacity for clairvoyance and revelation. Asserting the connection between artistic research and historical tragedy, Gracq describes a system of reference to the sacred structured by four auratic figures: A. Breton et R. Wagner, A. Rimbaud and E. Jünger.