« Lui-même à lui-même demeure inconnu » Les puissances du mal dans le romanesque gracquien

Julien Gracq’s gods are similar to Alfred de Vigny’s: masked, distant, and cold. Deciphering their ambiguous presence within the maps of the Admiralty or hanging over Allan’s suicide is to embrace a geography of evil and submit it to Vico’s energy. . . Who holds the pen? The black poet, who guides us with his lamp held high.