« Ni avec toi, ni sans toi » Les enjeux de la question du sacré dans l’œuvre de Gracq

In spite of his declared agnosticism, religious references have a strong presence in Julien Gracq’s work. Critics have often obscured these. Rather than treating it simply as a theme, the question of the sacred is approached here through the intellectual context of Gracq’s education in the pre-war years, with a particular focus on the debates about the sociology of the sacred which arose in connection with the Collège de Sociologie and Jules Monnerot’s interpretation of surrealism.