Why did Benjamin Fondane write a Faux traité d’esthétique? The aim of the present article is to show that, while Benjamin Fondane tends to confuse the sublime with the idealized or the edifying, he aligns himself nevertheless with the tradition of the sublime when he meditates on the rising of the terrible, on the dispossession and the shock that it generates, on the dread we feel in the face of an obscure issue that we are forced to understand whether it lies beyond good and evil, beautiful and ugly, or true and false.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques