The reading presented in this article is based on the manuscript of 1853 and the 1841 version dedicated to a Mme Aguado who had just gotten married. No less than that, the epithalamium would be created for the wedding of the West and Asia as Quinet sketched the idea in Ahasverus and Le Génie des religions. If the column is a witness to the past, Bénarès’ vision opens toward the future of a new, pending alliance, reduced to a dance of Shiva, whose female counterpart would be Mahdewa.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques