MEDITATIONS D'UN AGNOSTIQUE PASCALIEN: ESSAI SUR "LE MIROIR DES LIMBES" D'ANDRE MALRAUX. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Title
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MEDITATIONS D'UN AGNOSTIQUE PASCALIEN: ESSAI SUR "LE MIROIR DES LIMBES" D'ANDRE MALRAUX. (FRENCH TEXT).
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Identifier
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AAI8203332
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identifier
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8203332
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Creator
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STIGLITZ, BEATRICE.
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Date
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1981
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Romance
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Abstract
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Malraux's work--fiction, memoirs, writings on art and literature--is almost wholly a metaphysical investigation of man's fate and of the possible "metamorphosis" of his adventure here and now.;This essay is a study on Malraux's late mythobiographical work, Le Miroir des Limbes, in particular, his affinity with Pascal, the seventeenth century religious thinker. The focus is on the existential domain of Malraux's "poetic" universe. The point of view is literary.;The first part of this study analyses the author's concept of History against a background of a philosophy of History and the different interpretations rendered through the ages. Great Men of History of our century--Senghor, Nehru, Mao, de Gaulle--are described and analyzed from a Pascalian perspective.;Art and artistic creation are the subject of the second part of this study: the notion of style, metamorphosis, of the "Imaginary Museum" and of modern art, as symbolized by Picasso.;The third and final part--Ethics and Metaphysics--focuses on the temptations which assail modern man (science, power, the supernatural, religions), and the morality of fraternity, love and charity open to the agnostic yearning for transcending the human condition.;The essay concludes with an examination of the cat's intense, mysterious and ethereal presence, totem and symbol of Malraux's philosophicoliterary work.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
