Sacré dionysiaque et sacré du monde Gracq et Mandiargues en miroir

This study traces the dark side of the sacred in Le Rivage des Syrtes, with its thematization of wildness and monstrosity, but also in André Pieyre de Mandiargues’ Le Lis de mer. We find in both these texts an approach which aims to ward such things off, which in Gracq takes the form of the book of the world, in the tradition of German Romanticism and Ernst Jünger—a theme which Mandiargues miniaturizes, turning it into ornament, and which perhaps offers a way into Gracq’s own work.